Democrats and the White House blasted former President Donald Trump‘s claims about Jewish voters electing Democrats, calling the claims “vile and unhinged Antisemitic rhetoric.”
During a radio interview with Sebastian Gorka on Monday, Trump said that “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion” while hammering Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is Jewish, for their criticisms of the Israeli government as it fights a war with Hamas in Gaza. The uproar from Democrats, especially Jewish Democrats, was swift.
The White House slammed Trump’s comments, arguing there is “no justification for spreading toxic, false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens.”
“President Biden has put his foot down when it comes to vile and unhinged Antisemitic rhetoric,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “As Antisemitic crimes and acts of hate have increased across the world — among them the deadliest attack committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust — leaders have an obligation to call hate what it is and bring Americans together against it.”
“There is no justification for spreading toxic, false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens. None. Like President Biden said, he was moved to run for President when he saw Neo Nazis chanting ‘the same Antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the 1930s’ in Charlottesville. He will never give hate any safe harbor, including today.”
Schumer denounced Trump’s remarks, calling them “hateful” while contrasting Trump’s approach with his own regarding Israel.
To make Israel a partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship.
Trump is making highly partisan and hateful rants.
I am working in a bipartisan way to ensure the US-Israeli relationship sustains for generations to come, buoyed by peace in the Middle East. https://t.co/uCMvZWZ8rF
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 18, 2024
“To make Israel a partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship. Trump is making highly partisan and hateful rants,” Schumer wrote on X. “I am working in a bipartisan way to ensure the US-Israeli relationship sustains for generations to come, buoyed by peace in the Middle East.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Axios that Trump’s remarks were an “outrageous slander against the vast majority of American Jews.”
“How dare Donald Trump lecture Chuck Schumer about being Jewish,” Raskin said.
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Trump’s comments came in reaction to Schumer’s Senate floor speech last week, in which he called for regime change in Israel as it fights a war sparked by Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel in October.
During Schumer’s speech, he claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and that new elections must be held. Israeli officials blasted Schumer’s floor speech as “unhelpful.”
