{"id":556267,"date":"2021-06-07T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556267"},"modified":"2021-06-07T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:36:10","slug":"obama-says-trump-fanned-those-flames-in-discussion-on-rising-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-says-trump-fanned-those-flames-in-discussion-on-rising-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says Trump \u2018Fanned Those Flames\u2019 In Discussion On Rising Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-says-trump-fanned-those-flames-in-discussion-on-rising-anti-semitism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-461135964.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama appeared to blame his successor, former President Trump, for adding fuel to rising anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>In a written\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2021\/06\/barack-obama-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a>\u00a0published Monday by\u00a0Jewish Insider, Obama referred to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?403785-1\/president-obama-remarks-israeli-embassy\">speech<\/a> he gave at the\u00a0Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. in January, 2016 during the last year of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that the seeds that gave rise to the Holocaust have always been with us,\u201d Obama told Jewish Insider.\u00a0\u201cThey have found root across cultures, faiths, and generations. And they have reemerged again and again, especially in times of change and uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I gave that speech, it was clear that anti-Semitism was on the rise around the world. People\u2019s anger over everything from immigration to inequality was boiling over \u2014 and many of them were looking for someone else to blame. And for four years, we had a President in the White House who fanned those flames,\u201d Obama wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents of anti-Semitism hit an all-time high in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/news\/press-releases\/antisemitic-incidents-hit-all-time-high-in-2019\">according<\/a> to the Anti-Defamation League, which began tracking anti-Semitic incidents in 1979. More than 2,100 acts of assault, vandalism, and harassment occurred across the U.S., including a string of\u00a0violent assaults in Brooklyn and deadly attacks in New York, New Jersey, and California.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most shocking incidents in recent years, two shooters launched an attack in broad daylight at a kosher market in a Jersey City\u00a0Orthodox community in December, 2019, killing a police detective and three bystanders during an hours-long shootout between the suspects and police.<\/p>\n<p>Less than three weeks later, a man stabbed five people at a\u00a0Hanukkah party in a rabbi\u2019s home. One of the victims, a\u00a072-year-old rabbi who was stabbed in the head multiple times, succumbed to his wounds and died about three months later.\u00a0Earlier in the year, a shooting\u00a0at\u00a0a synagogue in Poway, California during Passover left one woman dead and three others injured\u00a0including the synagogue\u2019s\u00a0rabbi.<\/p>\n<p>While Obama appeared to suggest that Trump may have contributed to the rise in anti-Semitism, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2017\/02\/17\/is-anti-semitism-on-the-rise-does-anyone-care\/\">noted<\/a> in February 2017:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13.006920415225\">\n<p><em>As bad as 2017 has been for anti-Semitic incidents, 2016 wasn\u2019t great, either. Nor was 2015, when the Anti-Defamation League <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/press-center\/press-releases\/anti-semitism-usa\/2015-audit-anti-semitic-incidents.html?referrer=https:\/\/www.google.com\/#.WKciCBIrJE4\">reported<\/a> 90 anti-Semitic incidents on campuses, twice as many as the year before \u2014 a slow drip that has continued into this school year. \u2026 While there is real anti-Semitism, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/843834\/are-hate-crimes-really-on-the-rise-in-america-heres-a-guide-to-the-data\/\">no reliable statistics\u00a0available<\/a> to show there\u2019s been a rise in anti-Semitism since Trump\u2019s election. And while it\u2019s easy for some to blame Trump for all acts of bigotry, we should discern what\u2019s new from what we\u2019re simply\u00a0noticing for the first time.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several members of the Democratic Party have been accused of expressing anti-Semitic sentiment; in early 2019, before all three of those high-profile incidents of anti-Semitic violence, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was criticized and accused of being anti-Semitic when she remarked on the \u201cpolitical influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and several other Democrats have had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/08\/louis-farrakhan-democrats-448241\">ties<\/a>\u00a0in the past to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has a history of negative remarks about Jews, whom he has called the\u00a0\u201csatanic Jew,\u201d including saying,\u00a0\u201cthe powerful Jews are my enemy.\u201d In 2018, some Democratic lawmakers denounced\u00a0Farrakhan under pressure to do so by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, formerly the deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, previously vocally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2018\/03\/07\/keith-ellison-takes-over-the-democrats-universal-health-care-bill\/\">supported<\/a> Farrakhan but has since condemned him.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama appeared to blame his successor, former President Trump, for adding fuel to rising anti-Semitism.In a written\u00a0interview\u00a0published Monday by\u00a0Jewish Insider, Obama referred to a speech he gave &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279552,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-461135964.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama Says Trump \u2018Fanned Those Flames\u2019 In Discussion On Rising Anti-Semitism","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-461135964.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama Says Trump \u2018Fanned Those Flames\u2019 In Discussion On Rising Anti-Semitism","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}