Donald Trump wants Jewish voters to abandon Democrats. Last week, he unleashed a rant intended to shame every Jew who is backing President Biden in this year’s election.
“Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and, frankly, should be spoken to,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee declared.
The New York Times describes Trump’s latest shots at Jewish voters lined up with Biden as the “third time in the last month [he] has cast aspersions on” Jews who support Biden.
The latest blitz, however, went beyond insulting to demeaning.
“Any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined,” Trump said.
The political pitfall in Trump’s strategy is that polls show most Americans are having difficulty with Israel’s conduct of its fighting in the Gaza Strip.
A late March Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Americans oppose the devastating Israel Defense Force approach, specifically the high number of deaths among civilians and even humanitarian aid workers in Gaza.
Once-strong support for Israel’s response to a terror attack is declining among members of “all three major party groups,” over Israel’s current handling of the war, according to Gallup. Gallup found that support for the war among Democrats fell by 18 percentage points, and among Republicans by 7........