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Trump has flanked himself with an Orthodox Jew (Kushner) on one side and a purveyor of white supremacist rhetoric (chief strategist and senior counselor Steve Bannon), on the other. In this arrangement, Kushner plays the classic historical role of the figurehead Jewish adviser. As author Jonathan Levi wrote for the Forward last July, Kushner’s relationship to Trump eerily parallels the story of Charlemagne, the 8th century King of the Franks. According to Levi, “Charlemagne was keen to marry his daughter to a Jew who would…cement the support of the Jewish people.”
There are other examples of such Jewish advisers throughout world history, and many of these individuals share common characteristics: their power is precarious, and their interests are frequently aligned with their patrons rather than with their community.
originally posted by: theultimatebelgianjoke
What ! ?
He happens to be a bad guy just because he probably considers himself as American first rather than a Jew after all.
The question of primary allegiance for individuals bearing dual citizenship is probably worth a thread on its own and has to be addressed on an individual basis but, how does someone chooses what national interest he should favour if the interests of his two parent nations happens to be conflicting ...
So far, Kushner just demonstrated that he was on US payroll, not an Israeli one.
American Jews view a Muslim ban as a threat to the ideals they cherish, yet they also believe that too many Muslims in Israel is a direct threat to the Jewish people.
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According to the first poll, from 1938, the vast majority of Americans at that time believed Jewish exiles from Germany should not have been allowed into the U.S. The second poll, published in 1944, showed that 44 percent of Americans believed Jews held too much power in the U.S. at the time. Just as Trump has effectively banned Muslims from entering the country, the impetus for the retweets cannot be made any more clear.
Yet when it comes to Israel, the demographic rhetoric we hear from American Jews is far closer to that which Spencer espouses. One of the founding tenets of the Zionist project was to provide Jews with a state of their own, where they would be safe after centuries of persecution, violence, and near-total annihilation. But along with that legitimate and understandable desire for safety came an obsession with maintaining a Jewish demographic majority — at all costs. As my colleague Amjad Iraqi wrote on these pages, the irony is that in its desire to escape persecution, Israeli Jews “became an oppressive majority obsessed with racial control. To this day, the Palestinian people — whether in refugee camps, under occupation, or minority citizens inside Israel — are viewed by the Israeli state as an existential challenge.”
originally posted by: Indigo5
They just decided to nix it and use a version of their own that didn't mention the ACTUAL VICTIMS of the Holocaust.
Or when he tweeted a racist false demographic about black crime and deleted it.
originally posted by: FrogGod
a reply to: Willtell
Or when he tweeted a racist false demographic about black crime and deleted it.
The demographic isn't false. Blacks are responsible for the majority of violent crime, while simultaneously being the minority.
7 Statistics You Need to Know about Black-on-Black Crime
"Facts are racis' facts are racis'!"
The most glaring inaccuracies have to do with white homicide victims. Trump cast blacks as the primary killers of whites, but the exact opposite is true. By overwhelming percentages, whites tend to kill other whites. Similarly, blacks tend to kill other blacks. These trends have been observed for decades.
originally posted by: Winstonian
a reply to: Indigo5
It is state sponsored propaganda, you should really know better than this. All of the sudden being white and patriotic is "bad"
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