This article and this question are absurd. If you love something, you hate that which threatens it. If you love America, you hate its enemies. If you love Jews, you hate their enemies. If you love Muslims, you hate their enemies. Hatred is not unique to Donald Trump supporters. Those who have the opposite values from Trump understandably hate him.<\/p>\n
The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles<\/a>:<\/p>\n For decades, it seemed that the visuals of Nazi propaganda \u2014 replete with hunch-backed, leering, long-nosed Chasidic Jews \u2014 had vanished. Then came the internet. COMMENTS:<\/p>\n * Trump is not a politically correct person. That doesn’t mean he is a fanatic. He just tells it like it is. Just because someone labels Trump as a crazy or fanatic doesn’t make it so. Actually, Trump is a very successful business person who has hired thousands of people. How many people has Hillary hired or how much money has she made in the private sector to give her an inkling on how to make America great again. Hillary has put our secrets at risks with her private server and failed to protect Amb. Stevens and brave Americans in Benghazi. The buck stops with her on those matters. Americans are tired of the same old line given by the same old people saying they will change America for the better. When? Hillary has been around for decades and became very rich holding public office. When is she going to make America better, now?<\/p>\n * I remember that ‘anti-semitic’ president, Nixon. When Israel was ‘on the ropes’, in 1973, He quickly loaded C-5’s with the needed re-supply, thumbed his nose at our European ‘allies’, and flew them non-stop, direct to Israel.<\/p>\n And now, we have a ‘pro-Israel’ POTUS, who, during Arab Spring. initiated the shipment of M-1 tanks, F-16 fighter planes, and Apache helicopters, to Egypt’s Morsi (read Moslem Brotherhood). At the same time, he embargoed spare parts for Israel.<\/p>\n There is written evidence that if FDR was still alive in 1947, the creation of Israel would never have been passed in the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article and this question are absurd. If you love something, you hate that which threatens it. If you love America, you hate its enemies. If you love Jews, you hate their enemies. If you love Muslims, you hate their … Continue reading
\nVirulently anti-Semitic imagery has made its way into the presidential campaign, materializing, for instance, in Julia Ioffe\u2019s inbox and social media feeds after the Jewish reporter wrote a profile in GQ of Melania Trump, who found the article unflattering.
\nNow, members of the Jewish world who pay close attention to hate speech \u2014 anti-Semitic and otherwise \u2014 are posing an unsettling question: Will Donald Trump make America hate again? For some, the answer is that he already has.
\n\u201cTrump\u2019s rhetoric resonates with white supremacists,\u201d said Joanna Mendelson, an investigative researcher with the Center on Extremism, a branch of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
\n\u201cThey\u2019ve been essentially energized about Trump\u2019s candidacy, and they\u2019ve been very vocal about their support of Trump and his policies on immigration and globalism,\u201d Mendelson said.
\nIn February, the ADL published a list of 10 prominent white supremacists who actively support Trump. Then, in April, it urged the candidate to drop the phrase \u201cAmerica First\u201d as a campaign slogan, pointing out it had been used by Charles Lindbergh, a prominent Nazi sympathizer, in the 1940s.
\nThe Simon Wiesenthal Center, another prominent Jewish organization monitoring hate speech, has stopped short of calling out Trump by name.
\nBut in an emailed statement to the Jewish Journal, Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center\u2019s founder and dean, wrote, \u201cNo political candidate for high office of any sort should allow hate groups and bigots to pollute their campaign by peddling their hatred.\u201d
\nTrump\u2019s tough stance on immigrants, paired with his anti-establishment ethos, seems to have made him the most palatable candidate in decades for white supremacists, who otherwise have been slowly fading into the country\u2019s political fringe.
\nWilliam Johnson, who was named on the ADL list, explained that Trump\u2019s promise to put American interests first speaks to the concerns of white nationalists (he rejects the term \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d calling it \u201cthe worst swear word out there\u201d).
\nAs the chairman of the anti-immigrant American Freedom Party, Johnson favors the creation of a white ethno-state.
\nA corporate lawyer in downtown Los Angeles, Johnson became entangled in the Trump campaign last month when he applied to become a California delegate to the Republican convention, and his name was accidentally included in the list of Trump convention delegates sent to the California secretary of state.
\n\u201cVirtually all of the white nationalist movement is behind Donald Trump,\u201d Johnson said in an interview with the Journal at the time.
\nIn a second interview with the Journal, Johnson said the support stems from the fact that every other major presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan has promoted a globalist agenda of open borders and multiculturalism.
\n\u201cThey\u2019re all promoting the globalist platform that Donald Trump is now tearing apart,\u201d he said.
\nHe added that many members of his community are also tacitly rooting for Bernie Sanders because of his anti-establishment stance.
\nIn the interview, Johnson drew a line between white nationalists who see Jews as benign, saying Ashkenazis \u201cwould probably be considered white,\u201d and those who see them as problematic non-whites. Johnson said he belongs to the first camp.
\nOn the other side of that split is David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader.
\nLast month, Duke praised Trump on his radio show for exposing \u201cJewish supremacists who control our country.\u201d
\n\u201cMany people are upset with the Zionist elite,\u201d Duke wrote in an email to the Journal, describing himself as \u201ca Gentile who loves his own people as much as Jews love their own people.\u201d
\nDuke declined to comment further.
\nMendelson, the ADL researcher, questioned the existence of a clean divide between white supremacists who hate Jews and those who don\u2019t.
\n\u201cI look at many of those folks as ecumenical haters,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can\u2019t parse out their hatred for Jews, because really their hatred extends across the spectrum.\u201d
\nWhile some haters are willing to speak out in public, she said, many \u201cmight not do so boldly in their workplace or on the street corner or at that rally.\u201d Instead, they take to the internet.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve talked with many who agree with my opinions on Jewish influence, but it\u2019s a very tricky subject to talk about in public,\u201d a 22-year-old engineer from Houston, who declined to be named for this story, wrote in a private message on Twitter.
\nPosting under the handle @NationalismRise, the engineer has described a target of his ire as a \u201cfilthy kike,\u201d tweeted pictures of swastikas and referred to The New York Times as the \u201cJew York Times.\u201d He describes himself as a Trump supporter and a member of the alt-right movement, a fringe group of ultra-nationalist ideologies that challenges mainstream conservatism.
\nAsked why he believes Trump will stand up to Jewish political interests, he said, \u201cThe proof is in the pudding.\u201d
\n\u201cThe amount of hate & vitriol aimed at Trump from Jewish members of the media & high finance has been constant for the last year,\u201d he wrote.
\nHe echoed Johnson\u2019s sentiment that Trump would do away with the pervasive globalism of America\u2019s foreign policy: \u201cI believe his America First foreign policy and criticism of the neoconservative movement implies he will be much less likely to carry water for Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n