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P

resident 
Donald Trump 
is derided 
by American Jews, 
while he is extremely 
popular among 
Israelis, Gil Hoffman, 
chief political 
correspondent of the 
Jerusalem Post, told 
a JCRC/AJC audience several weeks 
ago. 
At a rally in the wake of the 
Pittsburgh Tree of Life massacre, 
the president stated, “This evil, anti-
Semitic attack is an assault on all of 
us. It is an assault on humanity. It 
must be confronted and condemned 
everywhere it rears its ugly head. We 
must stand with our Jewish brothers 
and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism 
and vanquish the forces of hate. 
Those seeking their destruction, we 
will seek their destruction.” 
Israel’
s Ambassador Ron Dermer 
said, “I am not aware of a single 
non-Israeli leader that has made 
such a strong statement [as President 
Trump’
s] in condemning anti-
Semitism.” 
The New York Times, Washington 
Post and many other media outlets 
made no mention of these uniquely 
strong remarks by our president. 

President Trump’
s strong statement 
against anti-Semitism is a sharp 
rebuke of President Barack Obama’
s 
comments on the Islamic terrorist 
attack in Paris at the kosher market. 
Obama described the Jewish victims 
as “a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris,” 
insisting that the Jews shopping in 
a kosher market, somewhere that 
mainly Jews go, were not targeted 
because they were Jews. 
President Trump’
s recognition of 
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and 
moving the U.S. Embassy there are a 
remarkable fulfillment of a long-ago 
promise. This move effectively defied 
the 2016 U.N. Security Council 
resolution that said Israel had no 
claim on the Western Wall and the 
Old City of Jerusalem. Professor Alan 
Dershowitz, at the Magen David 
Adom reception, pointed out that the 
Obama administration orchestrated 
this horrific Security Council 
resolution. 
In 2017, President Trump publicly 
challenged the leaders of 50 Islamic 
nations to eradicate Islamic terrorism 
at a meeting in Saudi Arabia. Many 
American Jews have ignored Obama’
s 
shameful treatment of Israel and his 
refusal to speak out against Islamic 
terrorism.
The Iran situation is very 

disturbing and only Trump is 
addressing it on the world stage. Iran 
is a serious threat on Israel’
s border, 
shouting “Death to Israel” and 
enriched by billions of dollars given 
by the Obama administration. Iranian 
nuclear documents, recently obtained 
by the Mossad, show that Iran’
s goal 
was/is to develop nuclear weapons.
Yet false canards against Trump 
and others are consistently reiterated. 
For example, that Brietbart News, 
which publishes articles supporting 
Israel by its Israel-based staff, caters 
to white supremacists. Anti-Semitic 
canards against former White House 
advisor Sebastian Gorka have been 
thoroughly debunked, and Rev. 
Robert Jeffress, chosen to speak at the 
embassy dedication in Jerusalem and 
branded as an anti-Semite, is a strong 
supporter of Israel, as one can hear in 
his many interviews this past year. 
Some claim George Soros is 
attacked because he is a Jew. 
However, James Kirchick makes 
clear in his recent Tablet article, 
American Conservatives oppose 
Soros not because he is Jewish but 
because he supports the politics 
of the far left. “Through his Open 
Society Foundations, the second-
biggest philanthropic institution 
in the United States, Soros funds 

a multitude of explicitly left-wing 
causes. Soros’
 lifetime spending 
through OSF ($32 billion) vastly 
outpaces that of the libertarian Koch 
brothers ($2 billion)” who get all 
the media attention.” Kirchick also 
wrote, “There is more than a whiff 
of hypocrisy to Soros using charges 
of anti-Semitism, especially given his 
own use of the same tropes he decries 
as anti-Semitic against people who 
object to him.”
Some say Trump is worse than 
Father Coughlin of the 1930s in 
stoking anti-Semitism. Coughlin 
had a weekly radio show where he 
spread his vile pronouncements, 
while Trump readily promotes the 
accomplishments of his Orthodox 
Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, 
and daughter Ivanka — two of his 
presidential advisers. Trump also 
placed Nicki Haley at the U.N. Her 
outspoken defense of Israel has been 
exceptional.
While his phraseology could be 
better, President Trump’
s many 
accomplishments have made a 
significant positive impact to the 
benefit of our country and the Jewish 
people.

Eugene Greenstein lives in Farmington Hills. 

commentary
Trump Is No Anti-Semite

Eugene 
Greenstein, 
Ph.D.

