“As president, I'll all the time have Israel’s again,” Mr. Bloomberg stated. Mr. Bloomberg has additionally lengthy opposed the movement of economi
“As president, I’ll all the time have Israel’s again,” Mr. Bloomberg stated.
Mr. Bloomberg has additionally lengthy opposed the movement of economic boycotts and sanctions towards Israel generally known as B.D.S., or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
The Democratic presidential candidates throughout the board have condemned anti-Semitism, particularly after the latest assaults in Monsey, N.Y., when 5 individuals had been stabbed in a Hasidic rabbi’s home throughout a Hanukkah celebration and an Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed while walking to synagogue. Pete Buttigieg, the previous mayor of South Bend, Ind., stated his administration would devote $1 billion to combat violent extremism, and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has a plan to fight white nationalism; each of their plans purpose to battle anti-Semitism.
However the subject as a complete has not addressed the specifics of anti-Semitism sufficient, stated Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief government of the Anti-Defamation League.
“We’re actually listening to about this subject greater than we’ve earlier than,” Mr. Greenblatt stated in a telephone interview. However the actual query candidates should tackle is, he stated, “How do you progress from rhetoric condemning anti-Semitism to actual plans rooting it out?”
Many American Jews have discovered themselves caught in an uncomfortable tension between conventional liberal American Jewish values and Mr. Trump’s alliance with Israel. Mr. Trump, who gained 24 % of Jewish voters in Florida in 2016, in accordance with the Pew Analysis Heart, has additionally been attempting to strengthen his assist by making anti-Semitism and backing of Israel a partisan subject.
Mr. Sanders wrote about his Jewish id, his relations who had been murdered by Nazis and the latest rise of anti-Semitic violence in a personal essay in November for Jewish Currents, a progressive Jewish publication. Not like Mr. Bloomberg, he criticized what he known as “false accusations of anti-Semitism” by Mr. Trump towards progressives and known as for the tip of Israel’s “occupation” of Palestinians.
“We ought to be very clear that it isn’t anti-Semitic to criticize the insurance policies of the Israeli authorities,” he wrote. “We should even be sincere about this: The founding of Israel is known by one other individuals within the land of Palestine as the reason for their painful displacement.”