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Antisemitism in Trumpworld

edited November 20 in Off-Topic
"Today I want to talk to you about a difficult subject.
Let me start with the Trump regime’s ongoing accusations of antisemitism to extort billions of dollars
from American universities — while simultaneously disregarding antisemitism within its own ranks."

"Exhibit A is Harmeet Dhillon, now Trump’s assistant attorney general for civil rights.
For the last 10 months, Dhillon has condemned prestigious universities for allowing what she deems
'antisemitic' protests — and withheld research funding unless they agree to explicit measures
supposedly to prevent antisemitism.
"

"In 1988, as editor of The Dartmouth Review, Dhillon published a column depicting Freedman as Adolf Hitler
under the headline 'Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Freedmann' — a play on a Nazi slogan, 'One Empire, One People,
One Leader,' but substituting and misspelling Freedman’s name for 'Fuhrer.'"

"Using the analogy of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the column satirically described
how 'Der Freedmann' and his associates rid the campus of conservatives. The column referred
to the ‘Final Solution of the Conservative Problem' and to 'survivors' of the Dartmouth 'holocaust'
and described Dartmouth conservatives being 'deported in cattle cars in the night.'"

"Exhibit B is Kevin Roberts — president of the Heritage Foundation, creator of Trump’s Project 2025,
and one of Trump’s most loyal supporters."


"Roberts recently came to the defense of Tucker Carlson after Carlson’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes,
an ardent fan of Adolf Hitler — in which Carlson declined to challenge Fuentes’s bigoted beliefs or his remark
about problems with 'organized Jewry in America.'"

"Here’s what Roberts said: 'Tucker Carlson … always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation.
The venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division.
Conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government, no matter how loud
the pressure becomes from the globalist class or from their mouthpieces in Washington.'"

"To whom was Roberts referring when he spoke of 'the venomous coalition' and 'the globalist class?'
These words are closely associated with antisemitism and are similar to those Fuentes has used."

"But the problem of antisemitism in the ranks of Trump Republicans runs deeper than one antisemitic crackpot. Indeed, it runs deeper than the apparent hypocrisies of Kevin Roberts or Harmeet Dhillon."

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-trumpworld

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  • Note: "Freedman", mentioned above, was Jewish and was president of Dartmouth College from 1987 to 1998.
  • a2z
    edited November 22
    how can it run deeper than trump himself?
    i maintain he is deeply resentful that his daughter converted to marry-up the wealth ladder, had to grovel for loans his whole life from many financial leaders of jewish faith, and had similiar lifelong reliance on lawyers to save him in court.

    the only thing keeping it in check has been his pro-militant view of israel and bromance with bibi.
  • "Organized Jewry" is code for "people smarter and more successful than me". As is "globalist" and everything "Soros".

    What is most despicable/disturbing is how these people are now trying to use the holocaust for their own personal cultural appropriation. To make it seem like they are oppressed in some fashion.

    Some Jews are supporting the regime that nurtures this nonsense. The ones who did not understand the lessons of history.
  • +1 @DrVenture.

    But it's complicated. What about his son-in-law, yes? Still, "there are fine people on both sides." (Charlottesville.)
  • I do not necessarily believe that trump is an anti-semite, personally. Just that he is unable to call out the large segment of those people in the MAGA ranks. It is complicated. His mentor and protector, Roy Cohn, was both a Jew and gay. trump does not seem homophobic, either.

    The problem, as I view it, is that trump won't take the risk that his base cannot handle a rebuke of these traits. He is/was in a unique position to make such statements. Maybe improve the situation regarding these intolerant views in his own ranks. He is just too afraid to do it. Too selfish to help anybody but himself.
  • Yes, that seems like a good perspective on the whole thing.
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