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I think it's more subtle than that --- Trump is ALSO playing to the anti-semitism in his (white Christian) base --- They ASSUME Jews MUST be "loyal" to Israel so Trump calling out Jews for being insufficiently "loyal" to Israel fits in with the anti-semitic stereotypes that Jews ARE people with "dual loyalties" --- The analogy to white supremacists calling whites who are allies of peoples of color "race traitors" would be akin to a black person using that attack to play up the argument that ALL WHITES are racists .... (a debate that rages by the way from time to time ....) But I also agree that Trump is pandering to the right-wing Jewish electorate who demand totally loyalty to whatever the Israeli government does .... > Literally all of the Jewish groups that responded to Trump (including > Jewish Voice for Peace) missed the point (or purposely obscured it). The > comments about Jews being disloyal had nothing to do with anti-Jewish > bigotry -- and notably, they were about loyalty to Israel, not the United > States. Accusing Jews of not being loyal to a *foreign state* is hardly > playing into the trope of dual loyalty. These comments were aimed at > Israel's victims. If anything they were appeals to Zionism and > Islamophobia. They are analogous to white supremacist statements that > whites who are insufficiently racist are "race traitors," etc. > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
