{"id":9657,"date":"2024-09-19T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2024-09-20T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:29:48","slug":"jcpa-statement-on-trump-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-statement-on-trump-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPA Statement on Trump Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement in response to former President Trump&#8217;s remarks this evening:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once again, Donald Trump has used a speech about antisemitism as an opportunity to embrace antisemitic tropes and attack the American Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>Trump continues to label Jews who don\u2019t support him as disloyal and crazy,\u00a0to play into dangerous dual loyalty tropes, and &#8211; now &#8211; to blame Jews for a potential electoral loss. At the same time, he continues to normalize antisemitic extremism \u2014 spreading the \u2018invasion\u2019 and \u2018replacement\u2019 conspiracies that have fueled deadly attacks against Jews, immigrants, and so many others; embracing and platforming avowed neo-Nazis and other extremists; and mainstreaming broader hate and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Treating Jews and Israel as political footballs makes Jews, Israel, and all of us less safe. Dividing Jews into \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 camps, engaging in dual loyalty tropes, and scapegoating Jews for his potential loss only further normalizes antisemitism. It needs to stop, and anyone who cares about Jewish safety should call it out. This is not partisan politics \u2014 it\u2019s about the fundamental safety of the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement in response to former President Trump&#8217;s remarks this evening: &#8220;Once again, Donald Trump has used a speech about antisemitism as an opportunity to embrace antisemitic tropes and attack the American Jewish community. Trump continues to label Jews who don\u2019t support him as disloyal and crazy,\u00a0to play into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>JCPA Statement on Trump Remarks - Jewish Council for Public Affairs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-statement-on-trump-remarks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JCPA Statement on Trump Remarks - Jewish Council for Public Affairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement in response to former President Trump&#8217;s remarks this evening: &#8220;Once again, Donald Trump has used a speech about antisemitism as an opportunity to embrace antisemitic tropes and attack the American Jewish community. 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