Anti-Defamation League Notes Increase in Anti-Semitism Aimed at Jared Kushner in Past Week
The drama surrounding Ivanka Trump‘s husband Jared Kushner continues.
Reports from last week indicated that Donald Trump‘s chief strategist Steve Bannon was not only fighting with fellow administration member Kushner, but was calling him names like “globalist” and “cuck.” As all of this was happening, Bannon was removed from his permanent seat on the National Security Council and his former website, Breitbart, began turning on Kushner.
Bannon’s and Kushner’s views on American intervention are very different. Kushner’s views won out in the president’s decision to strike Syria last week.
And in the wake of recent #FireKushner/#KeepBannon efforts, does it really surprise you that the Anti-Defamation League has noticed an uptick in anti-Semitic attacks on Kushner in the last week? They wrote this:
This campaign of anti-Semitism has been driven by white supremacists and anti-Semites and has all the hallmarks of classic Jewish conspiracy theories. The narratives include accusations that Jews in the Trump Administration are trying to start a war to advance the interests of Israel. They contend that Trump has abandoned his “America First” policy, which the alt right supported, because he is being manipulated by Kushner and other Jewish advisors.
The ADL pointed out that much of the conspiracy theories and overall nastiness was delivered with coordinated hashtags, like the aforementioned #FireKushner:
“Believe me folks, I know all of the best people.” – Donald J. Trump
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— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) April 9, 2017
That’s the only one we’ll embed, but the rest of the 130,000 or so tweets that resulted from the use of the anti-Kushner hashtags feature similar conspiracies about Jews infiltrating high levels of the government and other such anti-Semitism.
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