Trump agrees with radio host who referred to Kamala Harris’ husband as a 'horrible Jew'

30 July 2024

Former President Donald Trump is continuing to double down on his comments dividing Jewish Americans against each other ahead of the November election.

In a Tuesday radio interview with WABC's Sid Rosenberg, the 45th president of the United States once again railed against Jewish voters who favor Democrats, saying they "should have their head examined." This is the same verbiage the ex-president used for Jewish Democrats in April, when he disparaged liberal members of the Jewish community in impromptu remarks on a tarmac in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rosenberg then pivoted to second gentleman Doug Emhoff — who has been married to Vice President Kamala Harris since 2014 — suggesting that his political views made him less Jewish than his conservative counterparts (Emhoff, who was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents, grew up practicing in a Reform synagogue, and had his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Shalom in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey in 1977).

"He's Jewish like [Vermont Senator] Bernie Sanders is Jewish! Are you kidding me? He's a crappy Jew! He's a horrible Jew," Rosenberg said. Trump can be heard saying "yeah" in agreement with Rosenberg in the audio clip tweeted by Jewish Daily Forward reporter Jacob Kornbluh.

Trump's assertion that Jewish people who don't support him should undergo medical examination was based on the argument that Democrats have been less accommodating to the far-right Israeli government than him. This is despite President Joe Biden green-lighting the shipment of $1 billion in American-made weapons to Israel in May. That shipment came just weeks after the Israeli Defense Force was sharply criticized by the international community after it killed several aid workers with celebrity chef Jose Andres' World Central Kitchen delivering food to impoverished Gaza residents in a bombing attack. The United Nations later said that bombing may count as a war crime.

The claim that Jewish people should support Republicans for being more pro-Israel also hints at the "dual loyalty" trope, which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has referred to as anti-Semitic.

"It’s a charge that’s been used for centuries to harass, to persecute and to murder Jewish people," the ADL's Nancy Baron-Baer said in 2019.

“People are entitled to have differing opinions on Israel. People are entitled to have differing opinions on America. However, we need to be clear and direct in what our differing opinions are, and not fall back on a charge of dual loyalty that has caused persecution and murder of Jews for centuries,” she added.

Aside from their feelings about the GOP and its support of Israel, Jewish Democrats have also been sounding the alarm about the far-right, authoritarian Project 2025 initiative that they say will institute a Christian nationalist regime in the United States.

"Perhaps most concerning for the American-Jewish community is Project 2025's plan to defund the U.S. Department of Education," Israeli news outlet Haaretz reported in July. "The Office of Civil Rights, which is responsible for investigating and adjudicating allegations of antisemitism, sits within this department and has opened at least 145 investigations into such complaints."

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