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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.