CNN —Former President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Monday that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats “hates their religion” and hates “everything about Israel,” again playing into an antisemitic trope that Jewish Americans have dual loyalties to the US and to Israel.
“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump said.
“I don’t think they hate him, I think they hate Israel.
And the Democrat Party hates Israel.”“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” Trump said.
While Orthodox Jews lean heavily Republican, American Jews of other denominations, including the Reform and Conservative branches, have identified with or leaned toward the Democratic party.
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