From the Jewish News Syndicate:
Columnist Sara Lehmann continues,
“Such deceitful criticism of Trump reeks of partisan animosity of the basest kind. The governor’s confusing use of Nazi imagery is targeting the wrong culprit and, in the process, exonerating the real perpetrators…
“His comments ignore the reality of a president who was praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House…’
“Pritzker must not have gotten the memo regarding Trump’s executive order two weeks ago outlining a broad federal crackdown on ‘the explosion of antisemitism’ in the United States, especially on college campuses. The executive order cites “’n unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence…’
“The Israel Heritage Foundation condemns Pritzker’s words in the strongest terms…
“Rabbi David Katz, executive director of Israel Heritage Foundation, as well as the son and son-in-law of Holocaust survivors, immediately tweeted out his shock and dismay. ‘Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s comparison of the Trump administration to the Nazi regime is deeply disturbing and unacceptable. It diminishes the Holocaust’s atrocities and harms the memories of the 6 million lives lost. We urge Gov. Pritzker to apologize. We also call on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to condemn this statement and reaffirm responsible discourse.’
Jerry Wartski is the honorary president of the Israel Heritage Foundation and a Holocaust survivor said, ”What Pritzker says is mentally sick. The fact that he said this, especially as a Jew, is an affront to all Holocaust survivors. It hurts.”
Lehmann concludes, “Democrats and their cohorts are tripping over themselves while pouncing on Trump. But in the process, they are tripping themselves up. Calling Trump a Nazi, the day before the kidnapped bodies of the Bibas family were returned to Israel in coffins is a depravity no elected official should ever be exonerated for.”
