Israeli Minister Calls on Trump Administration to Condemn Nazi Symbols in Charlottesville

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Source: Haaretz

Education Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that the U.S. administration must condemn the use of Nazi symbols in a white supremacist rally a day earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bennett was the first Israeli minister to denounce the demonstration.

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"Flags and symbols that go unobstructed in the United States not only harm the Jewish community and other minorities, but humiliate the millions of American soldiers who paid with their lives to protect the U.S. and the entire world from the Nazis," said Bennett. "It is on the leaders of the U.S. to condemn and denounce manifestations of anti-Semitism that we have seen in recent days."

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The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish NGO that combats bigotry, released a statement on Sunday afternoon calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to call out and condemn white supremacy in the wake of the violence that broke out the day before in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"ADL supports the response from many elected officials, public figures and community leaders and welcomes President Trump’s condemnation of hate and violence," the statement reads in part. "However, the president must clearly denounce white supremacy in all forms."

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[BootinUp]

1. All sides sayeth Trump, lol.

[PSPS]

2. "Nazi Symbols?" Why not Nazis and their symbols?

[lark]

3. No way orange assface will do the right thing.

He was with them in heart and mind, if not actually supporting them financially and in print via Bannon and Miller. He's not about to actually call out the neo-nazi haters.

[haveahart]

4. But, but DT is Bibi's best bud! So glad to not have to deal with Obama, right?

[geek tragedy]

5. Bennett is a far-right nutball too, Tr*mp is pretty lonely in his refusal

to condemn Nazis.

[riversedge]

6. my guess is that trump digs in more.

[weydowner]

7. Anything to shock the cucks, and they can't even get that right.

These people are not 'Nazis' - I don't think that even Europeans almost 100 years after that period of lunacy share many of the views of Hitler. In the US there seems some odd mixture of white supremacy, racism and discontent that somebody else seems to be grabbing all the cookies in the jar. Doesn't really matter whether they are blacks or women or gays or immigrants; they are the enemy.
And of course the Republican fringe eggs them on because the last thing they want is people looking in their direction while they are driving off with the whole larder.

It was always like this, now that God, the archetype of while male privilege, seems to have absented himself and Money has stepped in to replace him. Trump is a reflection of the worst aspects of the Western Dilemma, and the remarkably stupid US public has anointed him and the stench of brimstone that completely envelops him and his foul family and his disgusting administration and his reprehensible views on practically everything.

This pseudo-nazi regalia is a means to bond inadequate losers together, and to shock any onlookers in a visual instant; I very much doubt that even the individual with more than one brain cell knows the derivation of the words they spout.
At least in the 1930s, people believed what they were saying; not these Inadequates.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. I thought Bibi just loved Dump

He's supposed to be better for Israel than that nasty Obama. Look upon your friend and learn, Bibi.

[lastlib]

9. and, supposedly, tRump loves Bibi.

So who does tRumpf love more--Bibi, or--NAZIS?

[yellowcanine]

10. Earth to Bibi.....This is who Trump is. Deal with it.

[CakeGrrl]

11. Trump can't or won't do it

Even Pence came out and denounced, and tried to help cover along with the WH, saying that of course Trump's statement includes them.

He must have told everyone he's not going to mention them directly.

Can't disappoint (or piss off) his true base: David Duke and his Stormfront brownshirts.

Trump should never have succumbed to his ego and run to destroy Obama. He's now beholden to a lot of evil.

[Juliusseizure]

12. Denial not just a river in Egypt

Netanyahu and Israeli right wing were irrationally suspicious of Obama, tied to a perceived Muslim upbringing and bias, and party affiliation. Netanyahu was complete dick to him.

Then along comes Trump - promising the world. Move capital to Jerusalem. Etc.

I've engaged these folks. Pointed out who Bannon was, SS soldiers in Trump campaign ads, Trump a fan of alt-right and infowar Alex Jones fan. His dad was a KKK member. Many supporters are racist. You can't love Jews and hate every other minority.

Naw, Ivanka's Jewish. Kushner. I'm a libtard idiot. Trump's the best.

Well f** them. Israeli right wing is blind to its own prejudices. The chicken's come home to roost. Trump refuses to reject American Nazis.

[BlueMTexpat]

13. As if. eom