Posts Tagged: Donald Trump Jews
Is Marine Le Pen Really a Friend of the Jews and Israel?
Since becoming the leader of the National Front (NF) party in 2011, Marine Le Pen has presented herself as a staunch ally of Israel and French...
Difficult Questions and Contested Answers on Antisemitism
JNS.org - In his magnum opus A Lethal Obsession, the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of antisemitism at...
Trump’s Refugee Ban Echoes Past US Wartime Paranoia and Outright Bigotry
JNS.org -- There are many axioms reminding us that if we fail to learn from the tragedies of the past, we are doomed to relive them in...
Why Jews Should Oppose Trump’s Immigration Policies
In 1939, the United States turned back a ship carrying more than 900 mostly German-Jewish passengers -- 254 of whom were later killed in the Holocaust. We Jews need to...
To Understand Trump, Read His 2012 Book
Maybe I missed it, but in all the millions of words being written about Donald Trump over the past year, I never saw anyone in the...
Trump’s Awful Mistake on the Holocaust
Full disclosure: I voted for Donald Trump and fully support him as president of the United States. Of course, my friends here in New York,...
Are Jewish Centrists an Endangered Species?
In early 2009, shortly after President Barack Obama took office, one of the first issues his administration faced was what to do about US participation in...
The Dangers of the Alt-Right, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump
There seems to be confusion and misunderstanding about what the "alt-right" is, and why some of us oppose it. Frankly, it is quite demoralizing that it...
The Illiberal World of Stephen Bannon
JNS.org - In considering the furore around President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the hard-right news website Breitbart, as his chief strategist,...
The Jewish Community’s Shameful Silence on Donald Trump
Last Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump appointed Stephen Bannon as chief strategist in the White House. We -- as Jews -- have a profound and existential responsibility to understand carefully what...
Placing Faith in Donald Trump on Israel
After one of the most hostile anti-Israel administrations ever, Steve Bannon, the newly-appointed chief strategist and senior adviser to Donald Trump, will attend the Zionist Organization of...
Examining the Jewish Vote
According to exit polls, 71% of American Jews voted for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, while only 24% backed her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Though Haaretz described the...
Donald Trump Has a Special Love for the Jewish People and Israel
The US election has drawn to a close, and, in a spectacular turnabout, Donald J. Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States. It...
What Trump’s Presidency Will Spell for Israel and Jewish Concerns
It’s being hailed as the greatest upset in modern political history. But, in truth, the election of billionaire businessman Donald Trump should have come as...
