{"id":3084,"date":"2016-05-24T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2016-05-24T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:27:05","slug":"republican-jewish-coalition-is-spineless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2016\/05\/republican-jewish-coalition-is-spineless.html","title":{"rendered":"Republican Jewish Coalition Is Spineless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My previous post about Trump raised the hackles of a couple of members of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC). They were upset that I dared to compare Trump to Hitler.<\/p>\n

For the record, I did not compare Trump to Hitler. I did call him the the\u00a0f\u00fchrer. But that\u2019s just the German word for leader.<\/p>\n

What I actually did point\u00a0out was that there is no shortage of unrepentant\u00a0Jew-haters pulling for Trump. And I asked Jewish Trump supporters if they weren\u2019t just a wee bit concerned that they were getting into bed with so many of them. One Republican Jew whom I know wrote to me\u00a0asking\u00a0how I could dare bring up the whole topic of the KKK, David Duke, and neo-Nazi supporters of Trump\u00a0when Al Sharpton has been to the Obama White House. Really, that\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jew-hating Trumpophiles keep emerging from the woodwork. And there are so, so many of them.<\/p>\n

Reporter Julia Ioffe felt their heat when she was\u00a0absolutely bombarded by their\u00a0antisemitic missives and tweets in response to her profile of Melania Trump in GQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what one of Mrs. Trump\u2019s\u00a0fans posted\u00a0to Iofee:<\/p>\n

\"julia-ioffe-trump\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mrs. Trump\u2019s response? Well, she didn\u2019t agree with her supporters, of course. But she pointed out that they had been \u201cprovoked<\/a>,\u201d after all.<\/p>\n

What?! Was she supposed to condemn them or something?! I mean they were just standing up for her! (And the Donald needs their votes!)<\/p>\n

In response to the absurdity of Republican Jews supporting the darling of American Jew-haters, New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman tweeted this last week:<\/p>\n

\"weisman<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, as if on cue, masses of Donald-loving Jew-haters unleashed an absolute barrage of hate upon Weisman. He re-tweeted them\u00a0for the world to see (until he just grew weary of it). Here are some of the lowlights:<\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/a> \"2\"<\/a> \"3\"<\/a> \"4\"<\/a> \"5\"<\/a> \"6\"<\/a> \"7\"<\/a><\/p>\n