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Behind the Aegis

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Sun Jul 21, 2019, 05:47 AM Jul 2019

(Jewish Group) Trump makes his week of 'send them back' about the Jews. Few Jews are happy.

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

It’s been dislocating, even dizzying, witnessing the devolution of President Donald Trump’s argument with four of his fiercest congressional critics, none of whom are Jewish, into an argument about… what Jews want.

Over and over since Monday’s tweet saying that that the Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” Trump has defended himself by calling the lawmakers and their party anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. In turn, Jews — including many who share Trump’s contempt for some of the women — appear to be asking the president to leave them out of it.

Immediately after his tweets, Democrats and a handful of Republicans called them racist. The House passed a resolution Tuesday calling them racist, with every Democrat and four Republicans voting yea. Major media stopped used wiggle words like “racially charged” and bluntly called his tweets racist.

In a flurry of subsequent tweets, press gaggles and at a rally in North Carolina, Trump pushed back, saying the congresswomen “hated” Israel and Jews, and also quoted Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as saying the congresswomen were anti-Semitic.

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Unsurprising that an anti-Semite would use a Jew as a shield while pretending to be a supporter, they are almost as bad as those who demand Jews speak out, yet ignore it when we do.
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'Politicizing antisemitism is exactly the wrong way to fight it" Skittles Jul 2019 #1
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