{"id":108874,"date":"2016-10-19T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108874"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:03:53","slug":"the-campaign-to-toxify-donald-trump-among-jews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108874","title":{"rendered":"The Campaign to Toxify Donald Trump Among Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Pollak wrote March 4, 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but he is not an antisemite. Yet there is a malicious campaign afoot to paint him as one.<\/p>\n

Tablet Magazine, for example, has launched a “Trump Watch” series, complete with German Gothic script that is apparently meant to remind readers of antisemitic tabloids<\/a> in Nazi Germany. Its mission: to show the “daily low-lights of Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to use the dark forces of bigotry to become President.”<\/p>\n

The inaugural post<\/a> cites Louis Farrakhan’s praise for Trump for refusing money from Jews (as he has from virtually everyone, thus far).<\/p>\n

The post goes further, and quotes Lloyd Grove’s absurd article<\/a> at the Daily Beast, in which Breitbart is accused of inciting Twitter trolls to scare Federalist writer Bethany Shondark Mandel, who has never once been attacked by this website. Breitbart News has called on<\/a> the Daily Beast to retract the article. (No one from Tablet contacted Breitbart News before regurgitating the article’s false innuendo, and wrongly associating Breitbart with bigotry.)<\/p>\n

The next edition<\/a> of Trump Watch links Trump with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement — though it admits he has nothing to do with it. Actual quote: “Factually, of course, they\u2019ve little in common. But facts don\u2019t matter here because facts don\u2019t always make sense.”<\/p>\n

The following<\/a> Trump Watch hits him for comments about the KKK, whom he had already disavowed<\/a>. And the next<\/a> takes up a letter signed by foreign policy experts opposed to Trump’s candidacy, and suggests “maybe something darker is taking place … Republicans with fundamentally authoritarian instincts are beginning to shoot glances at one another and to see their opportunity.”<\/p>\n

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