T. Belman. Blum nails it. She is the daughter of the late Commentary editor, Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter. Commentary was my favorite publication when growing up. I read every article and saved every edition for many decades.
Kindly note how she spells “antisemitic”. Today. it is most common to spell it “anti-Semitic”. I am with her and I often amend articles that I post to correct the spelling. In the fifties and sixties, the only spelling one used was antisemitic. This is not about being against Semites. It is not about Semites. It is about Jews.
The response to the former US president’s Truth Social post has been nothing short of a hysterical – purposeful – misreading of his words, which were neither threatening nor antisemitic.
The response to the former US president’s Truth Social post has been nothing short of a hysterical – purposeful – misreading of his words, which were neither threatening nor antisemitic.
The latest brouhaha surrounding former US President Donald Trump pertains to comments he posted on Sunday about – and directed to – American Jews.
“No president has done more for Israel than I have,” he wrote on his platform, Truth Social. “Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the US”
All true, other than the “surprisingly” part. The majority of Jews in the United States wouldn’t support a Republican if their lives, or Israel’s, depended on it. A befitting quip that circulated in Jerusalem ahead of the 2012 election was that if then-President Barack Obama were to nuke Tel Aviv, the Jewish vote for him might drop to 75%.
Trump continued, “Those living in Israel, though, are a different story; highest approval rating in the world. Could easily be PM!”
Again, though characteristically self-congratulatory, what he said is accurate. During his tenure, many adoring Israelis joked about wanting to elect him to the premiership. And with good reason.
He canceled the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear deal with Iran. He moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which he recognized as Israel’s capital. He ceased funding for the terrorist-supporting UNRWA. He shuttered the PLO mission in Washington. He recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. His State Department removed the word “occupied” from references to Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). He designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. And he brokered the historic Abraham Accords.
Still, his political and personal foes were furious that he dared to take credit for being the best friend that Israel ever had in the White House. What really got their bilious juices flowing was his warning that “US Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel, before it is too late!”
The response has been nothing short of hysterical, and not in the funny sense.
“We don’t need the former president, who curries favor with extremists and antisemites, to lecture us about the US-Israel relationship,” tweeted Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “It is not about a quid pro quo; it rests on shared values and security interests. This ‘Jewsplaining’ is insulting and disgusting.”
Greenblatt is actually the one who has no business talking about “shared values” with Israel, whose harshest critics he regularly defends. It is he who could use a hefty dose of “Jewsplaining,” to remind him of what his role is supposed to entail.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America spewed equally vile vitriol. “More unabashed anti-Semitism from GOP leader Donald Trump,” the group tweeted. “His threat to Jewish Americans and his continued use of the antisemitic dual loyalty trope fuels hatred against Jews. We will not be threatened by Donald Trump and Jewish Americans will reject GOP bigotry this November.”
This is particularly worthy of note in its idiocy. Trump issued no “threat,” and he certainly wasn’t invoking the “dual loyalty trope.”
On the contrary, he was calling on Jews to be more, not less, invested in Israel’s future and well-being. And he was warning that failure in this regard would have negative consequences for the Jewish state. What about this is wrong, let alone antisemitic? The answer is: nothing.
Nevertheless, White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre parroted the false accusation, though “plagiarized” would be a better depiction.
“Donald Trump’s comments were antisemitic, as you all know, and insulting both to Jews and to our Israeli allies,” she told reporters on Monday. “But let’s be clear, for years, for years now, Donald Trump has aligned with extremist and antisemitic figures. … We need to root out anti-Semitism everywhere it rears its ugly head. We need to call this out. With respect to Israel, our relationship is ironclad and it’s rooted in shared values and interests. Donald Trump clearly doesn’t understand that either.”
Really? Maybe she ought to tell her boss to “root it out” of the Democratic Party and its backers in academia, where it’s been “rearing its ugly head” with a vengeance.
Perhaps, as well, she might want to review the definition of “ironclad.” You know, since the Biden administration refers to Palestinian terrorists and the Israeli military as “both sides” when urging restraint and de-escalation.
This brings to mind comedian Jay Leno’s 2014 barb about then-President Barack Obama knowing “just how unbreakable the US-Israel bond is, since he’s been trying to break it for years.”
It was Trump who turned this around, to the dismay of the very progressive Jewish organizations that have been slandering him for his Truth Social post. They and numerous media outlets have been going so far as to compare his statements to those of rapper/designer Kanye West (a.k.a. Ye), whose recent rants have been filled with unapologetic Jew-hatred with violent rhetoric.
It’s a neat trick, since West is a pro-Trump conservative. But, comparing Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband – who boasted of his intention to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE” – to Israel’s proven ally isn’t merely disingenuous. It’s also transparent.
Not only does it serve to highlight the subpoenaing of Trump to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots; it also constitutes a Hail Mary pass on the part of all those praying to stave off a likely defeat for Democrats in the upcoming midterms. Prominent among the worriers are Jews.
Though Trump is not alone in bemoaning their counter-intuitive ballot-box behavior, he makes the mistake of taking the age-old phenomenon personally. As the late sociologist Milton Himmelfarb famously pointed out in Commentary magazine in 1973, “Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.”
Fortunately, there are exceptions to that rule. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), for example, announced on Friday that it will be awarding Trump its Theodor Herzl Medallion. The honor will be bestowed on the “best friend Israel ever had in the White House” during the organization’s gala on Nov. 13 in New York City.
Kudos to the ZOA for giving gratitude where it’s due.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
@Edgar G. If you are worried about losing open tabs, you might consider a chromebook. If it shuts off and you turn it back on for any reason. A. pop-up asks you if you want to restore your tabs. If you select yes, it puts everything back the way it was. Chromebooks are also a fraction of the price. Everything is saved in the cloud automatically though you can also save files to the hard drive. Just get one with the most memory because memory speeds it up or slows it down. Only drawbacks are you can’t run external programs, only what’s in the Google app store as it runs like an android phone and you have to be connected to the internet to do almost anything. You also don’t need to buy security software because Google updates it and secures it constantly though only until the expiration date which is usually 6 years. Then you have to throw it out. If you log into any chromebook or android device with your email and password, it restores all your stuff.
@Sebastien
@Reader
This story is completely taken out of context. Think back to the first four months of 2022. Do you recall anything which might cause someone to delay making aliyah to Israel? I am of course referencing the fact that Israel suffered a Case-demic in the early months of this year. Actually, the Case-demic began about Dec 26 2021 and persisted thru March when another smaller wave of cases took off. The rush of new cases in early 2022 literally made the 4 previous waves look completely inconsequential by comparison (with peak average daily cases being offset by a factor of 10X in early 2022). There was also a death wave associated with this case wave, but it was easily not as out of proportions from the previous death wave when considering average daily deaths The whole Case-mania didn’t resolve until late in April, or early May, which is also approximately when the death wave resolved as well.
So when the Haaretz article notes that the month of April 2022 suffered a 70% drop from that of April 2021, what I find remarkable is that the drop was not more severe than just 70%. Another interesting thing I found in the article is that no one seems to be able to understand why there was such a sharp decline when it was expected to rise, which is simply disingenuous. The fact that there was only a drop of about a third of emigrating Olim in the midst of the Covid hysteria strikes me as actually being much higher than I would have expected. The article was written at the beginning of June, so we will have to see how the numbers turn out over the rest of the year, but to suggest that the interest in aliyah has been blunted based on the early months of 2022 is quite a bit of Fake News.
Sebastien
In excuse for Nixon, whom I think would have ben a top President, he was a product of the Cold War, the Alger Hiss era, and Jews were at the forefront of the Communist subversions. Whittaker Chambers had just published his all revealing book, Jews had been executed for betraying Nuclear secrets, etc. His whole world was changing faster than he could adapt. He bore the backlash of the Hippy-Student Revolt-Vietnam debacle which were actually Kennedy’s and Johnson’s. detritus.
Etc.
I liked Nixon, and don’t believe that he was an active Anti-Semite, more of a built-in suspicion of Jews. The way he spoke about Jews privately was the same of that of nearly all Americans then. Knee-jerkers.
But he strongly supported Israel.
@READER-
Good points but I don’t think they see Israel that way just to show that they are good loyal US citizens. I believe that it is their true attitude towards Israel. A kind of “lip-service” . They are aware of Israel and yes, because they are Jews (JINOS) they “should” show something towards Israel, but there are so many things far more important for their daily lives.
Their ideology is Liberalism and the Democratic Party, Israel is a lingering family thing from generations gone by.
They likely have Netflix several places above Israel
The lists I saw had 20 items from 1 to 20. Israel was around 17-18, the lowest I saw was 11.(once)
As for retaining a copy of your post so that it can be reproduced, I’ve boticed your mentioning that you have reposted items previously posted. It’s a perfect idea, and very businesslike, but I have no idea how to do it. You know of course that my computer competence is less than nil.
When my computer crashes, or I accidentally close down, ALL my many open tabs, (maybe 12-15) are gone and I must laboriously from meory reinstall them. This happens at least once a week. A damned nuisance, but….that’s me. The same think happens when Microsoft decides to update my computer. I lose it all. I used to have a “restore” on Google Chrome, but the damned thing, so useful, vanished.
By the way, I see that TED found my missing posts and posted them today. But I don’t know what happened to the 1/3rd that never appeared.
@Sebastien Zorn
It is strange that they are surprised by it.
Israel does not want aliyah, it wants the Diaspora support which is waning as the Diaspora Jews are getting assimilated.
I think there should be a study by a few undercover reporters who would apply to make aliyah, hit the wall of the bureaucracy, and then write a book about it.
Or someone should set up a website with all the stories by those who couldn’t make it.
It is interesting with the Orthodox, most of them don’t want to make aliyah but the ones who did or were born there only want the properly Orthodox Jews to come to Israel.
@Edgar G.
I save my comments and repost them if they disappear.
It’s a pain but it is better than worrying about it.
{TED- my whole post had disappeared. I saw it printed but it had only about 2/3rd of my post. }
For some unknown reason the site computer did not print about a third of my post, the part where i discussed why many Jews, religious though they may be, do not feel impelled to go on Aliyah, feeling that strongly supporting Israel is enough.
Now it’s all vanished, I hope this is printed and stays.
Mr. Computer is cracking-up, maybe
The year we went on Aliya I was the only one from Ireland, and there were about 250 from the US, plus about 90 from the UK. The shaliach was an elusive scoundrel. I’ve told the story here before. We intended to stay there permanently.
BUT..I can tell YOU that going on Aliya is not suitable for many Jews even very religious. Maybe when they are retired , downsized and much older , but when they’re settled in a country with homes, families at school and cCollege with long established businesses….they won’t leave, and see no need to. Supporting Israel is enough for them.
In conversations with other building residents who were also new, I found that nearly 90% had already returned to their original homes, sadder and wiser. Of course in those days it was VERY rough. As I’ve written here, it took 8-10 years to get a phone, and that’s how long we had to wait. Public phones used only “asimonim”; those little coins with the slotted groove across the middle, and the phones themselves were often very faulty and you lost your coins. Only certain stores were permitted to have them to sell to the public. It was a MESS…
And that doesn’t include the loss of most of my total assets and ALL my possessions, many valuable, well over $350,000 which would be close to $3 mill. today. Fortunately, I had a reserve…….!!
@Reader
@Reader But that should be unnecessary. Remember when meeting with the PLO was illegal by popular acclaim? Temember when Israeli Arabs lived under martial law? Ben Gurion, Jabotinsky, Golda Meir, and Begin are spinning in their graves.
@Reader
Jabotinsky
@Reader Sounds good to me. Recall, I used to be a Stalinist. The only thing that changed my mind was his and the Left’s antisemitism which I once thought to be a thing of the past. I’m flexible on all other issues. I’d even be ok with fascism. I really don’t care about political, cultural, or economic superstructers once that’s on the table. 😀
@Sebastien Zorn
Well, when they are taught to view politics as sports and the country practices “see-saw” politics to divide-and-rule the electorate, it is no wonder that the electorate is split into two halves who hate and attack each other instead of the PTB.
Again, what do you suggest?
A country composed exclusively of the people who, in your opinion, think the right thoughts and vote for the right kind of politicians (because the wrong kind doesn’t exist anymore)?
@Edgar G.
Well, this means they are true American patriots.
They don’t want to be accused of “dual loyalty”.
BTW, that is exactly what Trump assumes – that Israel issue must be topmost in the minds of the American Jews, as though they are not American citizens.
If Israel was that important to them, they would have made aliyah.
I guess, Jews are damned if they do and damned if they don’t (no matter what it happens to be).
@Edgar I agree. I think he might have also been referring to the sorry state of affairs in Israel. It’s incredible the left is still nearly half the electorate. I think Bibi’s response was just right, and deadon accurate. Nixon also felt appreciated by Israeli Jews and reciprocated their affection while being paranoid about American Jews though Nixon, unlike Trump, really was an antisemite who had loyal Jews around him like William Safire, investigated.
I think many of you guys have got it wrong. Trump was not just criticising US Jews as such. He was criticising their voting patterns; that the large majority preferred to vote for Democrats instead of Republicans, who had done more for Israel in his Presidency, than any other US Govt in our lifetimes..
Knowing that Trump from his youth has been a very strong Israel and Jewish supporter, and that the Democratic Party has become the haven for open Jew haters, even in several of their public representatives, the majority of US Jews still vote Democratic.
In fact, In several polls in recent years, Israel has been near the bottom of a long list of US Jewish voters’ concerns.
It had not single iota to do with antisemitism, which was introduced by the Dems as a political piece of their usual crap.
Netanyahu’s response should have been FAR stronger. “I don’t “think’ that …is a very weak opening.
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By the way, (I have been posting about this to deaf ears,) Yair Golan today in Arutz, gave a very long interview in which the main topic was his strong belief that Ben Gvir should be in JAIL, ……..
This…from a guy who could have been our C of S.
Michael S what’s wrong with this picture? Where is the president of the ADL?
Hi, Honeybee. You said (that I said)
This is a dilemna. BTW, what is wrong with this picture?
https://static-3.bitchute.com/live/cover_images/M4YtazGIdcIH/XYMuj36xFDlc_640x360.jpg
Do you think Trump might have found Waldo in it?
@Sebastien Zorn
You know, it shouldn’t be news to anyone here that when they come to murder Jews, they don’t separate the “good Jews” from the “bad Jews”, it won’t matter in the end what “wing” you happened to belong to and what your political philosophy was, or how much you loved Trump.
Hitler knew that Jews hate each other (it’s in Mein Kampf), yet he wanted to exterminate all of them, regardless.
Well, what he did say was even worse:
Again, WHY did he need to kick the Jews?
It won’t help him to get more Jewish votes, that’s for sure (it might get him more votes from the Evangelicals and other Christians).
The rest of it I don’t want to go over again.
And most Jews and Episcopalians are not wealthy.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/11/how-income-varies-among-u-s-religious-groups/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/
well, not exactly, but close compared to other groups. 26 percent of Jews and 39 percent of Episcopalians lean Republican. Conteadt this with 70 percent of Mormons who lean Republican and 4 percent of African Methodist Episcopal Church
But Trump needs to understand that when he tells the 30 percent all he’s done for Israel, including pro-Israel students on college campuses under attack, he’s “preaching to the choir” but when tells the 70 percent, he’s “preaching to the {couldn’t care less.}”
Incidentally, I once looked up on Pew, Norman Podhoretz’s quip that Jews earn lije Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans and guess what I discovered. Jews have exactly the same occupational/income spread and political spread of Episcopalians and Puerto Ricans on the mainland tend not to vote. They vote bigtime on the island but they have different parties, a different political system.
@Sebastien
Fairly stated
@Reader
Another impossible statement to support as accurately stated. President Trump
isn’t suggesting the election was lost because of “ungrateful Jews” voting for the antisemitic Dems, as he did not lose the election victory which was in fact stolen from him. Trump has never wavered from this position, not even when it was suggested he do so by the closest of his ‘allies’ and staff. Any inference which you might be drawing here as to any role in Trump’s ‘defeat’ would have to be due to your own presumption, not Trump’s subliminal suggestion.
Furthermore, you state that,
For someone who prefers Christians over Jews, he certainly did a great deal for the Jews, and surrounded himself with a significant number of our faith. It is also unfair to infer that he is suggesting that “it will be solely the Jews’ fault if their state disappears” since he is admonishing them for the antisemitic company they keep and politicians they support, ie it is not just the Dem supporting American Jews, but also those antisemitic Dems who they support. Hence it could hardly be inferred with any precision that he is suggesting the “Jews would solely be at fault if their state disappears” – this would again only be your own addtion to his comments.
Finally, you state that
Donald Trump is no one’s ‘puppet’ and he doesn’t care what his enemies perceive or pretend to believe about his character or his motives. You accept that he has a Bull in a China shop nature, so who do you think this bull is trying to convince on any topic? His frank nature, stating the impossibly nu-politic statements he is known for, speaks clearly against this last assertion that he would work to prove anything to anyone about himself. He simply doesn’t care, and such frank honesty from someone in Washington, should be endearing to us all, I would think.
I mentioned that the catalyst for my political 180 as a leftist was the Oslo War aka “Al Aqsa Intifada.” But the earliest seeds of my first break with the left was my astonishment and horror at the Progressives, Jewish and non-Jewish, failing to side with ultra-Orthodox Jews under attack in Brooklyn during what was clearly a pogrom, the Crown Heights Riots in 1993.
They didn’t see them as their own people. And if your own people won’t defend you from racist violence, even in principle, and sides with your enemies, who needs them? With friends like this, who needs enemies?
There needs to be an acknowledgement that American Jews do not constitute a single unified community. 25 to 30 percent are right wing Zionist and politically conservative (though not necessarily on bread and butter issues). The 70 to 75 percent Progressive/liberal/left non-Zionist majority manage to give the impression they are all of us. That’s been true since Reform Judaism took root in the early 19th century. It’s almost like the situation of North and South Koreans who talk about wanting to unify but really.
But, if Trump were to say that, violence against our people might increase dramatically so maybe it’s better to just let sleeping dogs lie.
@peloni
Well, who is he to “admonish” the Jews, and Jews alone?
Or anyone else for that matter?
Could you, please, give a reference for his saying the same (or similar things) about Blacks.
If he is such a great supporter of Israel, why did he come up with that awful TSS package as his 1st choice and then replaced it with the Abraham Accords subterfuge?
I know, I know, it is the evil Kushner who did it!
@Reader
So you belittle Trump for supporting Israel because he didn’t provide the means of making that support permanent, while also criticizing his admonition towards the American Jews for supporting the very party which would strip Israel of the support Trump provided to Israel in the first place.
Additionally, Trump’s support of Israel was a significant part of his legacy, having established many landmark changes for the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Meanwhile, the overwhelming support which the American Jews provide to the Dems stands at loggerheads to Trump’s pro-Israel legacy, while it simultaneously threatens the Jewish Homeland by empowering these antisemitic allies of the American Jews. It is only reasonable that Trump would advocate for the American Jews to “wake up” “before it is too late”.
Furthermore, any division present among the Jews would only be due to the misplaced interests of those Dem supporters who either hate Israel so much, or love it so little, that they would ignore the safety and security which Trump afforded for both the Jewish State and the Jewish People while supporting the antisemitic legions within the Democratic Party.
I would suggest your comments here defy a reasonable stance and appear to weigh a bit large on the hypocrisy scale, but maybe you can explain why this isn’t so. This is a sincere question for you, if you are up to the task.
@Sebastien Zorn
For some reason, this “bull in a china shop” knows not to criticize publicly the Blacks, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. for not voting for him and not to compare them unfavorably with the Evangelical Christians..
The non-Jews understand very well what he is driving at, namely, that it is the ungrateful Jews’ fault that he wasn’t elected AND that he prefers Christians over Jews, and it will be solely the Jews’ fault if their state disappears.
ZOA is not doing him any favors by giving him an award, now he will have to work even harder to prove that he is not a “Jewish puppet”.
I don’t find his “bull in a china shop” qualities endearing.
@Reader
This is not a fair characterization of his words. He isn’t “attacking Jews publicly” as you suggest. Rather he is admonishing them for acting against their own interest and their own people. These are easily not the same thing. The former intends to belittle or injure or in some way abuse someone. The latter is a constructive criticism meant to support or benefit someone.
If you were to say that African Americans better get their act together and leave the Dem party before it’s too late, would this be a racist statement? No, it wouldn’t. It would be a fair criticism of them placing their support in a racist, antisemitic organization. The same is true for the Jews.
Trump has, in fact, made such statements towards both groups, and I can hardly see it as being an attack on either community. I would suggest that if either group decides not to accept this advice by Trump, it is their own choice to do so, but their choice to ignore his advice does not characterize his advice derogatory, incitement or harmful as an attack would require it to be. Suggesting his comments are an “attack on Jews” is quite disingenuous.
are. Of course, my favorite, because being meaningless in English, it’s funny:”Did you just address me informally?”
@Reader Good point but he’s not an antisemite, he’s just a hard hat from Queens. Blunt, rude, course, vulgar, insensitive, bull in a china shop. And I think he feels as though he were Jewish, himself, like most of his family and friends. He doesn’t always know where the line is* and feels he has a right to express an opinion about anything. Personally, I find it rather refreshing and cathartic. 😀
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* Kdramas have so many great witty comebacks, they are like a social how-to manuall. A relevant scold: “You atre crossing the line.”
@Sebastien Zorn
The problem here is that he is attacking the Jews publicly as the main cause of Israel’s possible demise.
WHY?
This doesn’t help anything or anyone.
In my opinion, it is just a slap in the face, and the Jewish reaction instead of recognizing it as such is just to point fingers at each other and yell “It’s not me, it’s HIM! I am good! Thank you Mr. Trump for your just criticism!”
Yes, Jews do have to get their act together
@Sebastien Zorn
We already discussed this in August – I am reposting my answer to you:
See the whole discussion on (if it’s still there):
https://www.israpundit.org/no-trump-didnt-committ-actionable-treason-or-espionage/comment-page-1/#comment-63356000253053
@Sebastien Zorn
We already discussed this in August – I am reposting my answer to you:
Reader
August 17, 2022 at 9:33 am
@Sebastien Zorn
“Party affiliation by religious group”
It is a survey (which is another word for “questionnaire”) of the total of 35,000 people from all the 50 states.
Religion/ % in the population/ vote for Democrats
Jewish/ 1.9% / 64%
Buddhist/ 0.7% / 69%
Hindu/ 0.7% / 61%
Muslim / 0.9% / 62%
Historically Black Protestant/ 6.5% / 80%
Unaffiliated/ 22.8% / 54%
As you can see, the numbers speak for themselves.
It seems that the small or threatened minorities (unaffiliated is an undefined mix) tend to vote for those politicians (the minorities think) who won’t try to defund the Social Security and Medicare, etc.
Then why everyone focuses only on how the JEWS vote?
See the whole discussion on (if it’s still there):
https://www.israpundit.org/no-trump-didnt-committ-actionable-treason-or-espionage/comment-page-1/#comment-63356000253053
@Reader Trump said, “Jews have to get their act together on Israel before it’s too late.”
Was he wrong? Was he saying anything all of us aren’t saying?
Don’t 75 percent of American Jews support the Democrats no matter what, supported Obama, in NY, it was 80 percent in 2008, supported Obama and the JCPOA, condemned Bibi for going before Congress, oppose Jewish settlement in Yesha?
I agree that he’s a mixed bag for the reasons you stated but he was the most pro-Israel president in US history and he didn’t threaten Israel into making suicidal concessions. When his TSS didn’t go over well, he traded it for the Abraham Accords which give lip service to a TSS at some undefined future date but says no more about it.
HONEYBEE_
Bronfen happens to be the Yiddish for “brandy”., so they can be called The Brandyman family. I think they only sold whisky but not being an expert they may have begun with brandy “home distilled” up in the mountains somewhere) ….just dreaming…….
They must have a huge blurb in WIKI.
Amazing that human nature provides massive wealth for those who cater to what cab turn into vices……I’ve nothing against alcohol, but I don’t drink-except Kiddush wine weekly.
They main guy was named by coincidence, I recall “Edgar”…
@HONEYBEE-
That must be “Bronfman”, big machers in Canada stationed back east inToronto. Billionaires, Seagrams and many other brands. Haven’t heard anything about them for many years.
They were presidents of this and that and everything in the Jewish Community like deities. But really just hard-nosed business people intent on making money. They must be still there somewhere as they were a large family of brothers and children.
Edgar G Yes, I know. My Father refused to buy a certain whiskey for his betrayal of the Eastern European Jews Brofman I believe.
Michael S Unite Jews?
Michael S Mayorkies
ADL
and all the Jews who “unfriended” me when I supported Trump/
Reader,
Any attempt to divide the Jews will only unite them.
Trump is attacking Jews as a class for not voting for him and divides them with his remarks.
This is not the first time he says these things, BTW.
When someone publicly attacks a whole minority group, especially the group which is almost constantly blamed for everything bad that ever happened and compares it unfavorably to another group which belongs to the enemy religion, it is questionable at best, and it is not the best way to get the attacked group to vote for the attacker (then what is the purpose of these remarks).
Some of the wonderful things that Trump “did for the Jews” are:
1) Recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital – this can be reversed by another president;
2) recognized the Golan Heights – conditionally – “Israel needs it for its security” – what if later it is decided that Israel’s security is no longer threatened and thus Israel no longer “needs” the Golan Heights?
3) tried to push through the TSS (I am tired of posting the map already), when this didn’t work, came up with the Abraham Accords – the future will tell what kind of development this is, I heard the accords are tied in with the TSS somehow;
4) stopped funding the UNRWA – this was reversed by the current administration.
This article and the discussion reminds me of the German Jews who blamed the German persecution of them and even the Holocaust on Ostjuden (here the blame is placed on the Jewish “Leftists and Liberals”).
@BPOSTER_
We don’t know if he’s really “surprised”. I would think not, as he must have long ago already assessed the worth of the Liberal Democratic Jews. He’s no fool, in fact he’s a genius.
But to show that he’s “surprised”, makes his point all the stronger, giving it more publicity than it otherwise might have got. Jews all over the world KNOW that Trump is ot an Anti-Semite, but in fact by deed and word, the exact opposite…for nearly all his adult life.
An endorsement so strong from ZOA puts the cap on the issue.
@HONEYBEE-
They also Went to Franklin Roosevelt and supported his banning of not allowing any Jews into the US, fleeing from from Europe. Mostly Liberal, Reform and that trash.
Even before the War. recall the SS St Louis. Canada was also Jew hating and did the dame. I have a story about that to tell you sometime.
Three names, without comment:
1. Merrick Garland
2. Adam Schiff
3. Chuck Schumer
Trump has nailed it, as usual!!,,unfortunately he is “surprised” by the reactions or certain people.
I observed long ago that certain people wouldn’t support a Republican if their lives or that of Israel depended on it and could have educated him. Ideology is a terrible thing!!
The “liberal Jews” of today are Liberals. Just like in the WWII era. LIBERALS!
Many are openly antisemitic!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-kanye-west-reaction-antisemitism-tucker-carlson-1234611989/
Bravo Trump
Biden calling Trump anti-Semitic, there is a laugh. Trump’s criticism of Liberal Jews is justified. I remember how they fought the transfer of the USA Embassy to Jerusalem. The truth can be painful.