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struggle4progress

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Fri May 20, 2016, 12:06 PM May 2016

Why the Anti-Defamation League is calling out Donald Trump

Nathan Guttman
May 20, 2016

... David Horowitz .. denounced Bill Kristol, an anti-Donald Trump Jewish Republican, as a “renegade Jew.” A week earlier, Trump’s presidential campaign sought to appoint a white supremacist leader as a delegate to the Republican convention. Shortly before that, a Jewish journalist was bombarded with anti-Semitic attacks and threats .. after she published an unflattering profile of ... Melania ...

“Here at ADL we haven’t seen this kind of kind of mainstreaming of intolerance at this level” for decades, said .. national director Jonathan Greenblatt ... Trump’s comments about Muslims and Latinos, his refusal to disavow racist supporters, and his belated action against such supporters, said Greenblatt, was reminiscent of .. George Wallace’s in 1968 and to Pat Buchanan’s .. 1992 campaign. “But to make these policies core to a candidate’s platform, that is new and its troubling and we think it’s a very worrying trend,” Greenblatt said ...


http://forward.com/news/national/340865/anti-defamation-league-gains-notice-as-the-jewish-group-calling-out-donald/

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