Rabbis cancel annual call with Trump over Charlottesville response
Source: The Hill
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 08/23/17 03:02 PM EDT
Top rabbis are refusing to hold an annual conference call with President Trump over his response to the violence at a Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally.
Rabbis from four major Jewish organizations said Wednesday they won’t hold the annual call with the president to mark the upcoming Jewish holidays because they found his response to Charlottesville was “lacking in moral leadership and empathy.”
“We have concluded that President Trump’s statements during and after the tragic events in Charlottesville are so lacking in moral leadership and empathy for the victims of racial and religious hatred that we cannot organize such a call this year,” the rabbis wrote in a statement.
“The President’s words have given succor to those who advocate anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia,” they wrote. “Responsibility for the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, including the death of Heather Heyer, does not lie with many sides but with one side: the Nazis, alt-right and white supremacists who brought their hate to a peaceful community. They must be roundly condemned at all levels.” The rabbis — representing groups like the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Rabbinical Assembly — ended their statement by saying they pray that Trump “will recognize and remedy the grave error he has made in abetting the voices of hatred.”
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don't they understand that Trump is simply misunderstood, and that HE'S the REAL victim of Charlottesville! 
The poor baby just just can't catch a break! 
