This is a mistake well-meaning Gentiles constantly make. They assume 1) Jews know what being Jewish means 2) That they actually care about being Jewish. Mark Zuckerberg would be the most famous example. He allowed, until recently, Holocaust deniers to have a presence on Facebook. He married a Gentile. His favourite food is pork. Trump and others assume that because he's Jewish he must love Israel but why make that assumption?
President Trump's full comments (my emphasis added): https://www.amimagazine.org/2021/06/16/donald-j-trumps-winter-white-house/ “You know what really surprised me?” Trump asks me as the conversation develops. “I did the Heights, I did Jerusalem, and I did Iran—the Iran Deal was a disaster, right? And I also did many other things. Jewish people who live in the United States don’t love Israel enough. Does that make sense to you? I’m not talking about Orthodox Jews. I believe we got 25% of the Jewish vote, and it doesn’t make sense. It just seems strange to me,” he stresses before exclaiming, “But I did very well in Florida. I did great in Florida.”
Exactly. Trump can't understand that the vast majority of non-religious Jews don't know anything about Judaism, don't see Israelis as close kinsmen, and assume that Judaism is just secular liberalism with latkes.
This is a mistake well-meaning Gentiles constantly make. They assume
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2) That they actually care about being Jewish.
Mark Zuckerberg would be the most famous example. He allowed, until recently, Holocaust deniers to have a presence on Facebook. He married a Gentile. His favourite food is pork. Trump and others assume that because he's Jewish he must love Israel but why make that assumption?
President Trump's full comments (my emphasis added):
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“You know what really surprised me?” Trump asks me as the conversation develops. “I did the Heights, I did Jerusalem, and I did Iran—the Iran Deal was a disaster, right? And I also did many other things. Jewish people who live in the United States don’t love Israel enough. Does that make sense to you? I’m not talking about Orthodox Jews. I believe we got 25% of the Jewish vote, and it doesn’t make sense. It just seems strange to me,” he stresses before exclaiming, “But I did very well in Florida. I did great in Florida.”
Exactly. Trump can't understand that the vast majority of non-religious Jews don't know anything about Judaism, don't see Israelis as close kinsmen, and assume that Judaism is just secular liberalism with latkes.
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