#once again! no antisemitism! fighting evil with hatred is not the answer!

[dizzythegreat]

and if you still support the actions of israel i have nothing to say to you. "but i'm israeli" "but i'm jewish" "but hamas attacked first" take it up with the more than 25,000 killed, of which more than 10,000 are children. take it up with the toddler with no fucking legs, the girl squeezed under rubble and had a tank driven over her so hard all the vessels in her eyes burst, the thousands of children in shock. kids having heart attacks from the stress, kids whose entire families are dead, kids mangled, kids dying in their parents' arms, kids dying alone on the dusty ground. i don't fucking care who's done what, there is absolutely no excuse, nothing that could ever warrant a genocide like this. if you still support the actions of israel, fuck you.

[verycleverboy]

Pathetic asterisk

"The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community at community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil," Trump said after a visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

He also called his tour of the museum a "meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms." Trump told NBC News earlier in the day that anti-Semitism was "horrible," and was "going to stop."

On Tuesday morning, Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, blasted Trump in a Facebook post.

"His statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting Antisemitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record," Goldstein said in the statement. "Make no mistake: The Antisemitism coming out of this Administration is the worst we have ever seen from any Administration."

In context: The incidents Trump condemned yesterday have been going on since the election, and the administration’s response has been muted at its absolute best. At the worst, you get incidents like the openly hostile treatment of a Jewish reporter who tried to ask him about a string of bomb threats phoned into Jewish community centers. Instead of answering the question, the President of the United States and leader of the free world got his ass on his shoulders and made it about himself...again. You also get a statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day which doesn’t mention the Jewish victims even once, and a White House that claims they did it on purpose. Meanwhile, America’s community of baby Nazis, who always thought Trump was secretly one of them, just kept getting bolder. 

Yesterday’s statement was delivered from Trump’s own mouth, not from an intermediary, which gives it more force than it would have otherwise. It’s unquestionably a move he should’ve taken. But the President is expected to get ahead of issues like these, not to be the guy sweeping up at the tail end of the parade. 

Where the hell was this guy in December?