Pranav Mathur, Pune
In his speech at the pro-Israeli conference on Thursday, former US President Donald Trump criticized the Jewish voters for siding with Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the elections that will be taking place on November 5th. He mentioned that the Jewish community tends to vote for the Democrats, following the trail he has seen he faces in the favorability ratings amongst the American Jews.
He called the upcoming elections as the most important elections in the history of Israel. He said that more than anyone else on the planet, it should be Israel that beats Kamala Harris and not himself.
In his speech, he emphasized the fact that should Kamala Harris come into power, Israel would be eradicated in the span of two years, and the Jews would be partly to blame for it. He told the crowd that the country needed to save Israel, and if he didn’t win, Israel would be wiped off the face of the earth. Taking into account Kamala Harris’s stance on the Israel-Palestine war, he called her a “bad Democrat”, pairing her with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer by calling him a “Palestinian”. He urges the crowd to reconsider their support as he feels “the enemy” has not even lifted a single finger to protect the Jews, and their children, and has not even given them any words of encouragement despite the overbearing talks of anti-Semitism, and if he wins he guarantees complete safety for Israel by stopping the toxins of anti-Semitism spreading all across the country, and the world.
Trump also took into account the rise of anti-Semitism in colleges and guaranteed that under his administration, any university that allowed the anti-Semitic propaganda to spread could potentially lose its accreditation and federal support. This is not the first time that Trump has expressed his disappointment at the fact that he is not backed by the American Jewish voters, even though for years he has expressed himself to be a “best friend” of Israel and the American Jews. In a few of his earlier speeches, he has said that the American Jews that vote for the Democrats don’t really like Israel, and brought this narrative back in his campaigns claiming that the Jews that side with the Democrats hate their own religion.