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.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    1 day 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.

    Hell, the Zionist militias that fought the Palestine civil war and then the Arab-Israeli war in 1947-1949 were Polish-trained and armed explicitly so Poland could toss their own Jewish population in Israel, and while Poland (and most of Eastern Europe) wasn’t exactly far-right they shared similar views on Jews. This shit goes deep.