This week’s cover of a popular German news magazine depicting U.S. President Donald Trump draped in the American flag while giving a stiff-armed Nazi salute is drawing sharp criticism from a prominent Jewish group.
Stern magazine’s illustration is part of a cover story headlined “Sein Kampf,” which translates as “His Struggle” and is a play on Adolf Hitler’s infamous “Mein Kampf.”
Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center says it’s been “outspoken in criticizing President Trump for failing to make a distinction between Nazis and KKK protesters and those who opposed them” but “the depiction of the president as a latter-day Hitler by a major German publication is untrue and beyond the pale.”
It says “Germans must surely know that by misappropriating” Nazi symbols, “they belittle and becloud” past crimes.
(AP)
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The idea that Trump is a nazi or a white supremacist is similar to the idea that Jews use Christian blood to bake matza. We should view those professing these ideas not merely as fools, but as dangerous threats to our community. The fact that some of them are persons with Jewish ancestry, makes them all the more dangerous.
I am confused. All this time I was under impression that Trump is a Russian spy. Now he is a Nazi?
Re akuperma’s comment: Your metaphor – that Trump’s portrayal giving a Nazi salute is like a the blood libel – is unsound and unfounded. Trump plainly said there were “good people” at the white supremist rally in Charlotteville, I don’t think that makes Trump a Nazi, but it certainly gives Nazis aid and comfort, and a magazine cover depicting him giving a Nazi salute is well within reason.
The blood libel is utterly unfounded and is supported and maintained by blind prejudice. Trump’s Nazi-friendly comments give reason to think he is comfortable with Nazis.