On the recordMarch 19, 2024
I would like to begin today by addressing the reprehensible and dangerous comments made yesterday by former President Trump. The former President's comments were utterly disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of anti-Semitism facing Jews, pushing the dangerous anti-Semitism trope of dual loyalty. To say you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other is sick. It is hateful. It is unadulterated anti- Semitism, and it serves to use Israel as a political wedge, further damaging the bonds between the United States and Israel. We have always tried--I have always tried through the years--to keep everything we do on Israel bipartisan. And to use it for partisan purposes hurts Israel, hurts America, and displays how low Donald Trump would go. And nobody who breaks bread with anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes and who called White supremacists in Charlottesville ``very good people'' or who, as was recently reported, said, disgustingly, that Hitler did some good things has any right--any right--to lecture Jewish Americans about their personal political beliefs. I condemn the former President's irresponsible comments and urge others from both sides--both sides--to do the same.
