It’s obvious that Trump is antisemitic

It’s more than just associating with antisemites.

Trump now sending fundraising emails about “Soros” *every day.* This has been understood by scholars, governments, &, once, the media—as a code word for “Jews,” actual people and the bogeyman of fascist imagination. A major, major antisemitic escalation. This needs to be news. pic.twitter.com/NKo34tjv67
— THE UNDERTOW, by Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) March 14, 2023

The abiding and even encouragement of Hitler-esque anti-Semitism by Trump and the @gop and the silence of @gop Jews in the face of that marks a frightening and rapid escalation. To treat Trump like he “said this before” or Kanye like he’s just a blowhard is profoundly dangerous.
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) October 16, 2022

Jews in New Jersey are especially alert now. They are re-thinking their weekend plans while standing up to Trump and Ye’s anti-Semitic remakes which have stoked up a virulent strain of Jew-hating. The FBI has issued a threat warning to NJ synagogues. Stand with us.
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) November 3, 2022

The former President’s statement about Jewish people is repulsive, offensive, and downright dangerous. Today would be a great day for my Republican colleagues to condemn such reprehensible tropes. So far, the silence is deafening.
— Rep. Dean Phillips 🇺🇸 (@RepDeanPhillips) October 16, 2022

Dear Republican Jews, once again: time to leave the cult. This is not new, and Trump has warned you before. My Dec 2021 @MSNBC essay "Trump Loves the Jews–Until He Doesn't" https://t.co/1Sz80DFBiS https://t.co/1c1DHYMKhG
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 16, 2022

Trump attacks U.S. Jews, posting they must ‘get their act together’ on Israel https://t.co/Mm4twjPm1h
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 16, 2022

More tweets on the rise of antisemitism

I blame Trump

The far left is not blameless for the rise of antisemitism, but the entire project of white Christian nationalism is to marginalize those who are not White and/or not Christian as something less than real Americans, @JRubinBlogger writes.https://t.co/8nuZKxvq3x
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) January 22, 2023

Joe Rogan describes Soros as someone “playing a global game” who “wants cities to fall apart” and as “an evil person in a Batman movie.”

11 million people listen to this podcast. 11 million people hearing and absorbing antisemitic tropes.pic.twitter.com/0cvmtmIT7z
— Elad Nehorai (@EladNehorai) January 16, 2023

Letter sent to our home this afternoon in the US Mail. The second like this in a month. I really don’t want or need a Swastika collection. Local law enforcement and ⁦@ADL⁩ notified. On top of all the other aggression since Twitter invited back the hate groups. Tough stuff. pic.twitter.com/wznyz2oFot
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) January 18, 2023

🔮You heard it here first. “Jews are really good at conjuring these fantasies,” we are like “spell-casters or wizards.” https://t.co/u8wsQuU5nH
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) January 14, 2023

"For Jews, this is a no-win scenario: If they stay silent, the anti-Semitism continues unabated; if they speak up, and their assailant is penalized by non-Jewish society, anti-Semites feel affirmed. Heads, the bigots win; tails, Jews lose." https://t.co/ctiUHD4VP5 pic.twitter.com/grbMn7jx2p
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) November 4, 2022

Kanye West “praised Hitler” in front of people for years, leading to countless NDAs and a settlement agreement viewed by @BenjaminGoggin. West’s public antisemitism is just the tip of the iceberg, former associates say. https://t.co/PjwAF1area
— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) November 2, 2022

Jewish leaders raised alarms Monday about antisemitism, which they say is increasingly normalized in American politics after a series of bigoted comments from associates or supporters of GOP candidates. https://t.co/vR0QbO3RCb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 1, 2022

I blame Trump for much of the increase in antisemitism

Trump is a bigot and he has made other American bigots think it’s alright to display their bigotry. I’ll never forgive him. I think antisemitism is the worst it has been in my lifetime.

Disturbing. And utterly unsurprising. In fact, my gut says it understates the problem: New survey finds antisemitic views are widespread in America – The Washington Post https://t.co/raD7Mf9fol
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) January 12, 2023

"76% of Jews believe Trump and his Republican allies are directly responsible for the rise in antisemitism and white supremacy in the United States."https://t.co/p2GLTHaXtC
— R.L. Stollar (@RLStollar) November 18, 2022

Anxiety over antisemitism in the U.S. is partly behind a recent surge in the number of applications for citizenship in other countries. https://t.co/K17HMLBjIN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 29, 2022

🙃 https://t.co/ZzJF3WRMaU
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) December 8, 2022

.@davidrlurie: “[E]ven if Trump exits the political stage, GOP figures like DeSantis will be standing by, ready and willing to continue to promote the bigoted conspiracism Trump helped to normalize in the Republican Party.” |@atrupar https://t.co/G0HSuwjjed
— Poli Alert (@polialertcom) December 5, 2022

jokes on them it’s how much time we need off for jewish holidays. pic.twitter.com/YSdJmCxCsr
— David/Dovid Bashevkin (@DBashIdeas) November 24, 2022

The authorities on Saturday arrested two people at New York’s Pennsylvania Station and seized a large hunting knife and an illegal firearm with a 30-round magazine in what they described as a “developing threat to the Jewish community.” https://t.co/pOXDL9Cktk
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 19, 2022

NEW: Trump ultimately made clear that he fundamentally did not want to criticize white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes after dinner at Mar-a-Lago — over fears that it might antagonise a devoted part of his base. @GuardianUS https://t.co/8P94G4B2Fd
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) November 28, 2022

In Birmingham, Alabama, one of 2 closely located Jewish Temples awoke to news of a fire, originating with a propane tank, underneath their building. Later, a "suspicious" backpack was found nearby, currently being assessed for explosives. Comes after threats to NJ temples. pic.twitter.com/k852ER1XJv
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 4, 2022

"For Jews, this is a no-win scenario: If they stay silent, the anti-Semitism continues unabated; if they speak up, and their assailant is penalized by non-Jewish society, anti-Semites feel affirmed. Heads, the bigots win; tails, Jews lose." https://t.co/ctiUHD4VP5 pic.twitter.com/grbMn7jx2p
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) November 4, 2022

I will never understand anti-Semitism. This report is sickening. https://t.co/nNdko1GARQ
— kathleenparker (@kathleenparker) January 16, 2023

Antisemitism is increasing

Trump meets with fellow antisemites.

Antisemitism on Twitter is up.

I have studied and written about antisemitism my entire life. I've interviewed scores of Holocaust survivors in my own family and as a journalist. This is the worst climate for Jews since the 1930s.
— Howard Lovy (@Howard_Lovy) December 2, 2022

Officials are warning that a surge in hate speech and disinformation about Jews on Twitter is uniting and popularizing some of the same extremists who have helped push people to engage in violent protests including the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. https://t.co/xsVgaEdrUo
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 3, 2022

Thanks Donald Trump and Republicans everywhere. This shit is on you. https://t.co/F0Xe4Subxv
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) December 2, 2022

NEW: I spoke to Jewish Texans, experts and historians about skyrocketing antisemitism/hate rhetoric, rising fascism and old white supremacist conspiracy theories that continue to stoke violence– against both Jews and non-Jews. @TexasTribune⁩ https://t.co/gwbA5DiIMY
— Robert Downen ($8 blue checkmark) (@RobertDownen_) November 28, 2022

As Trump hosts some of the most vile and notorious anti semites at Mar-a-Lago, it’s worth recalling that for decades he had espoused support for “the racehorse theory,” a theory about genetic superiority that was the basis for aspects of Naziism. https://t.co/aohvnulxiw
— Ian Bassin 🇺🇦 (@ianbassin) November 25, 2022

In case you missed it In 2021: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” the president said to his chief of staff John Kelly in Paris in 2018, according to @nytimes and ex-@WSJ reporter @MichaelCBender's book about the Trump Administration. pic.twitter.com/jS7jOz6AOC
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) December 2, 2022

A few Republicans are criticizing Trump for meeting with Fuentes

Better late than never

Most Republicans are still quiet.

Thune says Trump’s meeting with Fuentes was “a bad idea on every level,” adds whoever is advising Trump should have been fired
— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) November 28, 2022

asked by Jake Tapper about Trump having dinner with a Nazi, Rep. James Comer quickly brings up Ilhan Omar pic.twitter.com/4kqrvEJCqo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 28, 2022

CNN's Don Lemon wouldn't stop until he got Trump's former Deputy Asst. Sec. of State to admit that Trump should not have had dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. pic.twitter.com/c2rJq0cT5i
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 28, 2022

Sen Susan Collins to @sahilkapur and me:

“I condemn white supremacy and anti-semitism. The president should never have had a meal or even a meeting with Nick Fuentes.”
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) November 28, 2022

News: @Mike_Pence tells me former president trump should apologize for dinner with anti-semites
— Leland Vittert (@LelandVittert) November 28, 2022

Very few Republicans have criticized Trump for meeting with Fuentes

I guess they’re cool with anti-semitism. The GOP is a haven for bigots.

Your article is about 3 people who have criticized Trump. The great majority of Republicans have said nothing.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 27, 2022

Days later, we are still waiting to hear Republican leaders denounce ex-President's choice of dinner guests and renounce anti-Semitism.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) November 27, 2022

Having tracked Fuentes for years, let me note this as a reporter: he is well-known inside the GOP. People can pretend otherwise but professionals who work in the party are highly aware of how his white supremacy and anti-Semitism influences some voters, esp on fringe platforms.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) November 26, 2022

Looking for a single returning or new GOP House member who has condemned Trump for the Fuentes/Ye meeting. Anyone? Rank and file and leadership of course welcome. The wall to wall silence from the incoming majority is speaking volumes.
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) November 27, 2022

I believe Gov. Hutchinson is the FIRST current GOP officeholder to slam Trump for the West/Fuentes meeting — and he leaves office in January. https://t.co/VhaugzFk60
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) November 27, 2022

Republican lawmakers have largely remained silent in the wake of Trump's dinner with antisemitic rapper Ye and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, reviving a tactic they frequently relied on during his presidency. https://t.co/JEruHGyRMq
— Axios (@axios) November 27, 2022

More on antisemitism

I am 69 and Jewish. I think there is more public antisemitism than at any point in my life. I blame Trump for making it acceptable for his cult. It’s right there with their anti-Asian and Anti-Black hatred.

"For Jews, just 2 percent of the population but the targets of 55 percent of reported religiously motivated hate crimes, the trend revives centuries-old fears."https://t.co/iXE7wX0bk4
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 29, 2022

Totally normal stuff from the GOP in 2022. It’s all unleashed now – the antisemitism, the anti-Black racism, the incitement to violence. https://t.co/cPNse2NCzt
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 29, 2022

The voters of Nevada have a choice. Please, reject this.👇

"A Twitter account connected to former Laxalt staffer Michael Pecjak has compared abortion to the Holocaust and claimed that 'Jews are not a religious sect and are a cult,' among other comments."https://t.co/yrjxsQ80DR
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 31, 2022

As a Jew who grew up in the heartland, I remember my friends’ parents casually telling me how sad it was that my family was going to hell.

So when a gentile says they love Israel more than a lot of Jews do, I hear:

“We need Jews to housesit Israel until the rapture arrives.” https://t.co/IIqPd5kTIq
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) October 30, 2022

It was displayed on outside of stadium at UF/UGA game in Jacksonville earlier tonight and now on outside of other Jacksonville buildings like this one. pic.twitter.com/EZ9XH7fIrU
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) October 30, 2022

At Chaffee and I-10 in Jacksonville. #AntiSemitism on another American overpass. This is horrifying. pic.twitter.com/3ICenqPR4P
— Melissa Ross (@MelissainJax) October 28, 2022

On the rise of an ever more open antisemitic discourse in the US – it strikes me that our schools should not just focus on the Holocaust, but also teach something about the many century long often brutal Christian oppression and subjugation of Jews in Europe.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) October 25, 2022

A week ago Donald Trump threatened American Jews to "get their act together" "before it is too late" on his social media website.

The right-wing media has turned up the volume on antisemitism considerably.

A non-exhaustive thread of examples: 🧵
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) October 23, 2022

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter unleashed an avalanche of bigotry

Right-wing extremists spewed racism and anti-semitism

Antisemitic campaign tries to capitalize on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.https://t.co/Ch78G2xgiz pic.twitter.com/IwhGVvpKY5
— Oren Segal (@orensegal) October 29, 2022

🚨 There was a *1,300% INCREASE* in the use of the N-word on Twitter in the hours after the Musk takeover happened, a Bloomberg analysis found.

The word peaked at 170 mentions every five minutes on the afternoon of Oct. 28. https://t.co/BnNAAqaf73
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) October 29, 2022

"An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday"https://t.co/qjQm9mESZE
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) October 28, 2022

The ADL Center on Extremism has identified a coordinated effort to spread #antisemitic content on @Twitter, explicitly drawing inspiration from @elonmusk's takeover of the company. In the past 24 hours, over 1200 tweets and retweets have spread antisemitic memes. pic.twitter.com/4mUj5wxQnH
— ADL (@ADL) October 28, 2022

More tweets on Trump’s antisemitism

Trump’s long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropeshttps://t.co/BvqDvM7sMl
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 17, 2022

The White House calls Trump's statement about American Jews "antisemitic and insulting both to Jews and to our Israeli allies." Press secretary says Trump has aligned with antisemitic figures for years
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) October 17, 2022

Donald Trump, in a newly released video from 2021, described Persians as "very good salesmen," said Israeli Jews favored him more than Jews in the U.S. and asked whether a filmmaker interviewing him was a "good Jewish character." https://t.co/jMWYQZRrPx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 19, 2022

Trump’s antisemitism (and lack of reaction by the GOP)

Trump is a bigot. The GOP is antisemitic too since they haven’t responded to his terrible rant.

The Republican Jewish Coalition (@RJC) call themselves "a Republican voice in the Jewish community and a voice for American Jews in the GOP." Needless to say, they seem to have had nothing to say in response to this much-noted comment by their master and teacher, Donald J. Trump. pic.twitter.com/BGvG9vVPMO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 16, 2022

https://t.co/8qwEkKg3Dw
— Aaron Brakel (@junolocal) October 16, 2022

For the non-Jews out there, I would say that American Jews really aren't crazy about it in general when non-Jews issue warnings or instructions about what we as a group ought to do or need to do. All the more so when it's so clearly a threat. But not just that.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 16, 2022

Trump offered an ominous message Sunday morning, warning “U.S. Jews” to “get their act together” and be more appreciative—“before it is too late.” https://t.co/eDFKpMTLUe
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 16, 2022

Antisemitism falls from fascist movements like rain drops from the clouds.

The flow of antisemitism from the MAGA fascists was inevitable and inexorable. It is like gravity. It is innate and foundational to any right wing fascist movement built on lies and conspiracy theories.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) October 16, 2022

Dear Republican Jews, once again: time to leave the cult. This is not new, and Trump has warned you before. My Dec 2021 @MSNBC essay "Trump Loves the Jews–Until He Doesn't" https://t.co/1Sz80DFBiS https://t.co/1c1DHYMKhG
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 16, 2022

Trump warns American Jews to "get their act together" and back him because of his support for Israel "before it's too late" — once again invoking tropes of dual loyalty, an antisemitic canard in and of itself https://t.co/yMWg3PWEaj
— Ben Samuels (@Bsamuels0) October 16, 2022