Moshe Smith posts: “It may be true that the GOP candidates are too focused on Israel. . But once Coulter starts talking about F-ing Jews as if they are not full Americans, she crosses a line, and you shouldn’t cross it with her.”
Are non-Jews full members of the Jewish state? Technically, yes, in spirit? Maybe. So too Jews are technically full members of the USA, just as 2 million Arabs are full citizens of Israel, but Israel is the Jewish state and America is its own unique nation.
From Ann Coulter’s Twitter feed:
* Good grief! Huckabee is running for PM of Israel.
* Cruz, Huckabee Rubio all mentioned ISRAEL in their response to: “What will AMERICA look like after you are president.”
* How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?
* How to get applause from GOP donors: 1) Pledge to start a war 2) Talk about job creators 3) Denounce abortion 4) Cite Reagan 5) Cite Israel.
* All GOPs = prolife, pro-Reagan, pro-Israel. Pandering on all 3 tonight was EPIC.
* How about Huckabee, Rubio, Kasich etc talk about Israel’s sturdy and effective border fence?
* I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. Didn’t need to hear applause lines about them all night.
* And half the GOPS would bring the Jihadists here as “refugees.” Could they have talked about that tonight?
The GOP debate on CNN was full of zingers, but some of the comments that caused the most controversy were from the sidelines.
Conservative syndicated columnist Ann Coulter posted a series of tweets during the GOP debate that many are calling ‘anti-semitic.” After several candidates addressed the need to strengthen the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, Coulter tweeted, ‘How many (expletive) Jews do these people think there are in the United States?”
Coulter, who has over 600,000 followers on Twitter, said she was the responding to the plethora of GOP support for Israeli relations, during the second GOP debate held at the Ronald Reagan Library in California.
Her Twitter tirade began early in the debate and a string of tweets called out the candidates for what she later called “pandering” to Israel.
Coulter received a mixed response, with some offering support and others slamming the columnist as an “anti-semitic.” Coulter tweeted in defense of the comments throughout the night.
On Twitter Coulter responded to a tweet that said “shame on you,” by explaining that she was calling out Republicans for their worn-out rhetoric. She tweeted, “All GOPs = prolife, pro-Reagan, pro-Israel. Pandering on all 3 tonight was EPIC.”
REPORT: Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is not known for her good manners, but she seemingly crossed a new barrier of hostility Wednesday night when she tweeted offensive comments about Jewish Americans as the GOP candidates debated Israel and national security. Coulter, who seemed to be accusing the candidates of pandering to Jewish voters after four of 11 candidates mentioned their support for Israel in their closing remarks, questioned the number of Jewish people the candidates thought lived in the United States.
Coulter, who has 660,000 Twitter followers, was following the second televised Republican debate held Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. She also wrote of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: “Good Grief, Huckabee is running for prime minister of Israel.” Coulter continued her Twitter rant by noting: “How to get applause from GOP donors: 1) Pledge to start a war 2) Talk about job creators 3) Denounce abortion 4) Cite Reagan 5) Cite Israel.” Meanwhile, Coulter referenced the Holocaust in her review of the debate Wednesday, writing, “The other problem with the Be Reagan strategy is: It’s not 1980 anymore. Reagan’s election is as far away today as the defeat of Hitler was then.”
Coulter has insulted Jewish Americans before. In a 2007 interview on CNBC’s “The Big Idea,” Coulter told Jewish host Donny Deutsch that she wants her dream America to be completely Christian.
Roughly 7 million Jews live in the United States. The four candidates who mentioned Israel during the debate hosted by CNN were Huckabee, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
After Coulter’s tweet, some social media users said her account had been hacked, while others slammed her remarks. Followers called Coulter “anti-Semitic,” and “desperate for attention,” calling her statement “f—ing offensive.” Others defended her, as #IStandWithAnn began trending on Twitter Thursday morning.
