Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Trump: Israel may not want peace with Palestinians [View all]oberliner
(58,724 posts)On Thursday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump delivered a speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition in which he essentially praised members of the organization for being a bunch of Shylocks.
Stupidly, you want to give me money, he began. But he added that youre not going to support me because I dont want your money, suggesting that Jews are unwilling to back people whose purse-strings they cant control, a classic anti-Semitic trope
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/03/one_yuuuuuge_mistake_donald_trump_just_delivered_an_anti_semitic_speech_to_the_republican_jewish_coalition/
Of course, leave it to Philip Weiss (Mondoweiss) to come to Trump's defense:
Trump wasnt anti-Semitic
Donald Trumps comments to the Republican Jewish Coalition yesterday about his audience including great negotiators who want to buy candidates were not anti-semitic, as a lot of liberal writers are claiming. The quips were a generalization, surely, but an accurate one.
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/trump-wasnt-semitic#sthash.7mitvMeX.dpuf