Posted on 11/20/2018 5:08:03 PM PST by Incorrigible
October 30, 2018 By Alyssa Fisher
Holocaust survivor Judah Samet said he doesn’t believe President Trump’s harsh rhetoric bears the blame of the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where 11 people were killed at prayer, the Washington Post reported.
Samet narrowly avoided the shooting — he was four minutes late to morning services at the Tree of Life Congregation on Saturday, enough time for officers to stop him in the parking lot, the Forward reported.
He expressed fear at the rise in anti-Semitism and white nationalist groups but said he doesn’t think Trump is responsible for inciting the violence, according to the Post. In fact, he supports the president.
“I don’t fall in love with people, except my family, but I love him for what he’s doing,” Samet told the post.
He continued: “Our economy is fantastic. Obama was a jerk and hated Israel.”
Samet was born in Hungary and turned 8 years old in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, the Forward reported. Nevertheless, he told the Post that he was unfazed by Trump calling himself a nationalist last week and his criticism of globalism, two historically anti-Semitic terms. The same goes for Trump’s promotion of conspiracy theory about George Soros, a liberal philanthropist and fellow Hungarian Jew.
“Is he a nationalist? To me, America comes first,” Samet said. “Israel is important, but since I’ve been living here all this time, I’m very patriotic.”
Alyssa Fisher is a news writer at the Forward. Email her at fisher@forward.com, or follow her on Twitter at @alyssalfisher
Guess they forgot to mention that Soros is a self-hating Jew who was a bag man for the Nazis during WW II. You might call this “biased news.”
Our economy is fantastic. Obama was a jerk and hated Israel. Is he a nationalist? To me, America comes first. Israel is important, but since I’ve been living here all this time, I’m very patriotic.
By contrast, the shooter was a leftist hater of Jews and hater of Trump.
“calling himself a nationalist last week and his criticism of globalism, two historically anti-Semitic terms.“
Two lies in one sentence.
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May G-d bless and keep Judah Semet.
When I was just a kid, maybe 9 or 10, but a bookworm with a fascination for history, I was in line at a grocery store with my grandmother. The elderly woman behind us had the tattoo on her arm. I knew what it was and I wanted look away but couldn’t. She locked eyes with me and said “it’s ok,young man, I survived”. She knew that I knew.
I know who the real modern-day Nazis are, and it sure as hell isn’t Trump or his voters/supporters.
Vegetarian (or Vegan)/socialist/Anti-Semitic/anti-Liberty/Pagan/Antithiest or outright atheist etc? Who does that describe? (I left out a lot but y’all get the drift)
They can all FOAD.
May Almighty G-d bless and keep our Free Republic.
I live in Pittsburgh and this story has seemingly been hidden for weeks. The shooting is still front page news everyday. They keep trying to push the issue to show how bad Trump & the country are. The real issue with antisemitism is the left and blacks & muslims. It has been going on for years in the US but that aspect is ignored. The left sees the KKK & neo-Nazis under every rock.
G-d Bless Judah Samet.
See. It’s all Trump’s fault./s
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