Trump said Jewish Dems « should be ashamed of themselves » and accused them of hating Israel.
The White House and Jewish Democratic groups on Monday condemned former President Donald Trump’s claim that Jewish Democrats “hate” Israel.
“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump told Sebastian Gorka, a former White House aide and conservative radio host. “And the Democrat party hates Israel.”
“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” he later added. “They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”
Trump’s comments came after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called on Israel to make “significant course corrections” in their assault on Gaza and hold new elections.
“The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7. The world has changed — radically — since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” Schumer said last week.
Schumer responded to Trump’s remarks on social media, warning that making Israel a “partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship.”
“Trump is making highly partisan and hateful rants,” he tweeted. “I am working in a bipartisan way to ensure the US-Israeli relationship sustains for generations to come, buoyed by peace in the Middle East.
