Trump campaigned on a pledge to fight antisemitism. “Antisemitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society,” Trump said at an event in 2024.

However, critics question whether antisemitism may have found a place within his administration.

NPR has identified three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a “Nazi sympathizer,” and a prominent Holocaust denier.

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, argues that the administration is using antisemitism as a pretext.

    • Preeble_E@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      I invite anyone to have a look at /r/conspiracy if there was ever any doubt about what lies below the thin veneer of civilization. The protocols and ehatever fuelled them never went away…

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    You have to be really really really ignorant and/or been living on Sentinel Island for the past at least 12 years to not already know this.

    Anyone who believed a word about Trump fighting against anti semitism was looking for a talking point to ride as an excuse to vote for him, and those people fucking suck.

    • thanks AV@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Most of the people saying this just wanted the pretense to black bag and terrorize anyone who hurts Israel’s feelings, antisemitism be damned. Arabs are semites, and nobody has a problem being genocidal towards them. It was always going to be like this. The question is: how long do people let this shit continue?

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      “I’m not saying you’re a Nazi, I’m just saying that all the self proclaimed Nazis think you are.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    10 months ago

    Everybody forgets the Nazis first plan was to toss all the undesirables into their own country, and that the European countries created Israel to get rid of their own Jewish populations after WW2.

    The creation of Israel was antisemitic, and no one should be surprised when far right countries “friendly” with Israel announce that they’re deporting their whole Jewish population to Israel.

    It’s a choice now, but those governments and Bibi would love for it not to be.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 months ago

    I mean, yeah. This is monday news. Today he will probably announce a pedophile as the new responsible for child safety and tomorrow a random blonde, ex fox news anchor as the new nuclear counseling expert. He’s been saturating the media space for a decade now. I firmly believe there could be a video of him raping an entire class of first graders and his base would defend him. Good luck usa.