Trump Also Did Not Mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day
The White House has issued a statement on the bomb threats called in to dozens of synagogues and Jewish community centers across the country. The statement, which was in response to a request for comment by a reporter, does not use the word “Jewish” or mention anti-Semitism. Similarity, the President’s daughter, who converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, posted a tweet denouncing the terror attacks, without mentioning they targeted Jewish facilities.
These actions are consistent with the Trump White House’s statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which did not mention Jews, the Jewish people, anti-Semitism, or the fact that six million Jews were slaughtered by Hitler and the Nazis during the Holocaust.
“Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,” the White House said in a statement Monday evening given to NBC News national correspondent Peter Alexander. “The President has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.”
Ivanka Trump posted this tweet:
The JCC hashtag presumably stands for Jewish Community Centers.Â
As NCRM’s Robbie Medwed noted in an op-ed, Monday, Presidents’ Day, marked “the fourth time multiple JCCs were the target of a coordinated terrorist threat during the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency. The Jewish Community Center Association reports 69 incidents at 54 JCCs in 27 states this year alone.”
Last week during a press conference when asked about the terror attacks, Trump chose to take a reporter’s question as a personal affront, and declared, “I am the least anti-Semitic person you’ve ever met in your life.” He had several opportunities to denounce the attacks last week and did not.
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