Donald Trump is being criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for repeating a slogan the group believes to be anti-Semitic.
The ADL has taken issue with Trump’s use of the phrase “America First” to describe his approach to foreign policy.
The phrase was originally used by a group called the America First Committee in the 1940s, which pushed to keep the U.S. out of World War II.
The ADL released a statement Thursday saying that famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, one of the best-known supporters of the committee, sympathized with the Nazis.
“The undercurrents of anti-Semitism and bigotry that characterized the America First movement – including the assumption that Jews who opposed the movement had their own agenda and were not acting in America’s best interest – is fortunately not a major concern today,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement.
“However, for many Americans, the term ‘America First’ will always be associated with and tainted by this history. In a political season that already has prompted a national conversation about civility and tolerance, choosing a call to action historically associated with incivility and intolerance seems ill-advised,” Greenblatt continued.
The group said it wrote a letter to Trump urging him to stop using the phrase.
Trump has not publicly commented on ADL’s request.
This is not the first time ADL and Trump have clashed.
In March, ADL decided to redirect all of the $56,000 in donations Trump previously gave to the Jewish civil rights-human relations organization, citing the “stereotyping and scapegoating that have been injected into this political season,” Greenblatt said at the time.
(Source: WABC)
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10 Responses
1. ADL is showing its primary focus is left-wing Democratic politics, not support Jews.
2. That a slogan was also used by a long forgotten historical movement is irrelevant, at to those of use who weren’t involved in American politics 80 years ago.
3. Given Trump’s past actions, and the fact that he has given control of much of his business (rather than disowning) her daughter who converted to orthodox Judaism pretty much proves that anyone accusing Trump of anti-semitism is a bare faced liar.
This is why people like Trump!!!!
The ADL is pulling the PC politically correct garbage out of the trash can.
This is so far fetched that it makes the ADL look like your typical liberal!!!
No substance just PC hype!!
I wasn’t a fan of Trump, but for this, that he is putting up a fight on PC, which is the tool of the left to wreck havoc on the world!!
Greenblatt should shut his loud mouth up and stop embarrassing Jewish People in America. He is nothing more than shill for Democrats and Obama Hitlary gang.
The ADL has been heard from. Now back to your regular lives.
The atheistic ADL would sue if someone wrote a bad review about a kosher pizza restaurant. Their values are not Torah values.
This is a bit of a stretch, even for the ADL… “America first” certainly doesn’t have anti-Semitic undertones to Americans born after 1950.
anti Trump craziness is getting out of control.
pro Killary is so not emes.
If I had any reservations about Trump they are now resolved. I am definitely voting for Trump.
1 im sure one thing the adl cant swallow is that his daughter picked orthodox
The adl is about as relevant today as the naacp. Greenblatt is a hack for the upper west side, tikun olam Jinos (jews in name only.)