The Media Ignores Anti-Semitism Unless It’s a Tool to Target President Trump
For years, establishment media outlets have ignored the uptick in violence against Jews nationwide. Now that Donald Trump is president, they use anti-Jewish hate in America as a tool to attack the White House’s legitimacy.
Jewish Community Centers throughout the country have been on the receiving end of bomb threats, forcing school closures and a tense environment in these local areas. In one recent high-profile incident, a Jewish graveyard was vandalized. Though the perpetrators of these crimes have yet to be identified, many media and left-wing institutions have decided that Trump is to blame for these incidents.
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, an obscure far-left institution based in New York City, has utilized the namesake of the Holocaust victim to bash the entire White House as an anti-Semitic administration. Their statement, which includes sentences like: “The anti-Semitism coming out of this Administration is the worst we have ever seen from any Administration,” has been picked up by countless media outlets, few of which point out the organization’s extreme left-wing platform.
President Trump is many things, but an anti-Semite he is not. For decades, he has been a very public figure, and the media is yet to find a single file that proves Trump has ever fanned the flames of anti-Semitism.
Trump’s children, Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr., are all married to Jews. His top advisors are Jews. His closest friends are Jews. His Mar-a-Lago club (in the city of Palm Beach, where Jewish entry to many of institutions is still blocked to this day) and his many other properties encourage Jewish membership. He has been incredibly supportive of the Jewish state of Israel. Simply put, there is *zero* evidence that Donald Trump has ever said or done anything explicitly anti-Semitic. He is, by all accounts, a close friend of the Jewish community.
In November 2016, the FBI released its annual hate crime data for the year 2015. Of the 1,402 victims of anti-religious hate crimes in 2015, over 52 percent were Jewish. From 2014 to 2015, hate crimes against Jews shot up nine percent. Year after year, the vast majority of anti-religious hate crimes have targeted Jews, although American Jews account for only two percent of the U.S. population.
But in reporting on anti-Jewish hate crimes that occurred under the auspices of President Obama, the mainstream media either completely ignored the facts or buried the most important information. Never did anyone in the media ever ask if Barack Obama was to blame for a supposed anti-Jewish climate growing in America.
When the FBI report came out while Obama was still in office, showcasing that more than half of all anti-religious hate crimes targeted Jews, the New York Times headline on the data read: “U.S. Hate Crimes Surge 6%, Fueled by Attacks on Muslims.” The Washington Post echoed the Times report, using the title: “Hate crimes against Muslims hit highest mark since 2011.” The Post story made no mention that Jews accounted for the vast majority of victims. Politico headlined its story: “FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims in U.S. jump 67 percent in 2015”. CBS News utilized an almost identical title. The Boston Globe, NBC News and several others followed suit with comparable titles.
Mainstream media outlets appeared very concerned with the rise of anti-Muslim violence (as they should be), but breezed completely over the most common victims of anti-religious hate crimes.
Until Donald Trump became president, much of the media didn’t seem to care that Jews were overwhelmingly the majority of victims of anti-religious hate crimes. Now, the media utilizes consistent widespread anti-Semitism as a tool to target Trump. (For more from the author of “The Media Ignores Anti-Semitism Unless It’s a Tool to Target President Trump” please click HERE)
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