The ADL’s Remarkable Omission
by tristero
Trump and Trumpism own the Pittsburgh massacre. They can try to squirm away from it all they want — and claim the obvious dog whistles weren’t dogwhistles, that the incitements to violence weren’t incitements — but it is their deplorable values the gunman displayed and acted on.
Today, Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL published an op-ed in the Times. To his credit, he called out Matt Gaetz, Trayvon White, Steve King, and Louis Farrakhan for their open trafficking in anti-semitism. There is one name missing from Greenblatt’s list: Donald Trump.
Why? Greenblatt surely knows Trump’s courtship of people who hate Jews. So why is he so afraid to call out the Bigot in Chief?
And why does Greenblatt carefully equate the political power and reach of two white anti-semitic sitting members of Congress with two African Americans who have nowhere near Gaetz and King’s political power?
And why does Greenblatt not mention the political party — Republican — of those two anti-semitic Congressmen?
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