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The Surge Of Trump-Fueled Anti-Semitism Is Hitting Jewish Reporters Who Cover Himhttp://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/05/27/3782503/donald-trump-anti-semitism-tweets/
by Jack Jenkins at Think Progress
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Granted, the newly minted Republican nominee for president has long insisted that his is not himself anti-Semitic, and regularly points out that his daughter is a Jewish convert. Yet Trump has done little to quell a rising tide of anti-Semitism among his supporters since launching his campaign last year: Trump initially refused to disavow anti-Semitic Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, a Trump surrogate implied at a rally that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders should convert from Judaism and meet Jesus, prominent anti-Semites went on radio shows to encourage their supporters to "get out and vote" for Trump, and a man was filmed leaving a Trump rally shouting in Cleveland shouting Go to fucking Auschwitz.
To make matters worse, anti-Semitic white supremacists recently announced that they view Trumps relative silence on the issue as an endorsement.
This surge of anti-Semitism has been unsettling to many, but is hitting one group especially hard: Jewish political reporters who cover Trump, many of whom who say they are regularly subject to anti-Semitic harassment by his supporters online.
When Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe published a lengthy profile of Donald Trumps wife Melania in April, for instance, her computer was reportedly flooded with an avalanche of angry, anti-Semitic tweets in response. Ioffe began retweeting the attacks to highlight their unsettling intensity, such as photoshopping a Jewish star used by the Nazi regime onto her clothing or digitally inserting her face into an image of a person detained the Auschwitz concentration camp. She also received death threats by phone and email, prompting Ioffe to solicit the help of the Anti-Defamation League and file a police report alleging that the hateful messages included a threat to kidnap or injure a person.
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The Surge Of Trump-Fueled Anti-Semitism Is Hitting Jewish Reporters Who Cover Him (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2016
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Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)1. This I'll give you: It's confusing times for American anti-Semites.
How do you think the Jewish vote will break if it's Trump Vs. Sanders?
Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)2. No surprises.
Also not surprising, is the supreme lack of interest. Until it gets to an extreme, anti-Semitism just doesn't register with people.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)3. K & R nt