Trump Admin Is Anti-Semitic, Racist Human Garbage Demanding Challenge by Decent People

"It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over
again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed
on one people, then no one is safe. ... This too
is a harvest of those so-called Christian ministers
who have chosen to preach hate instead of compassion.
Let them now find pious words and raise
their hands in deploring the bombing of a synagogue."
—  Ralph McGill,
A Church, A School
Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 13, 1958

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — It's been clear for years Donald Trump is a racist and anti-Semite who used the far-right to cobble together an improbable Electoral College majority.

Recall the first days of Trump's term in 2017 when this gang of idiots babbled on about Holocaust Remembrance Day, it got worse three months later.

Any analyses on we, America, political culture, coming together, healing are so much blather. Any both-sides, false equivalence nonsense should be challenged.

The people who commit these acts of terror and spew hate know their kindred garbage in the White House.

All are the enemy of decent, intelligent Americans.

The Trump administration should be renounced and repudiated as collaborators.

Pittsburgh is the work of the Republican Party's decades-long, divide-and-conquer and demonization effort.

This is not us, not America, this is one Party under Trump who has summoned forth killers to take center stage on Trump's grand show, unbowed by his "bad hair" day incurred after the massacre.

Trump got what he wanted, and noone can say they didn't see this coming.

Trump this morning tweeted his thoughts on how the perpetrators of the massacre were given aid — by the media:

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

Republican-supporting Americans. Do you get it?

Writes Jonathan A. Greenblatt this morning in the NYT:

More than 100 years ago, the lynching of a Jewish factory superintendent, Leo Frank, in Marietta, Ga., shocked the Jewish community and the nation. It directly led to the formation of the A.D.L. to fight anti-Semitism.

The Pittsburgh massacre should be a similar shock to us today, waking us up to the anti-Semitism and hate in our midst and reminding us all that the fight against them must be diligently fought at every turn by each and every one of us.

Every one of us.

Reminds me of what our friend, Mikey Weinstein, said when asked, "Are we facing the same level of hate that we faced in the late 1950s and early 60s?"

Said Mikey:

No, we’re not. It’s far worse. … [For example,] the situation with this thing with [Col Donald] Higgins is Higgins might probably try to argue that the Jews blew their own synagogue up themselves. The most base, evil, cold, calculated, old-school type of anti-Semitism, Mike, is simply telling lies about Jews. 

That was nine years ago.

Weinstein runs the Military Religious Freedom Foundation which publishes its hate mail.

You want to know how bad it is today? Consider a typical piece of hate mail, given a response by Mike Farrell.

The exchange is reproduced below, and was published Oct 26, one day before the massacre at the Pittsburgh Synagogue:

Note From MRFF Editor: Mikey Weinstein and MRFF get called bigoted names often; however, antisemitism is especially common. While one might find themselves getting numb to hate referencing Nazi’s and the Holocaust, let us all remember how bad things once were. On this day, “26 Oct 1942, Nürnberg, Germany: 95 scientists gathered to review the result of Dr. Sigmund Rascher’s freezing experiments using concentration camp prisoners as subjects.” – (source): ww2db.com/event/today/10/26/1942

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From: (withheld)

Subject: Halloween’s Evilest Demon

Date: October 26, 2018 

To: Mikey Weinstein

Mr.Wienstien,

I want to say a few straight things from the heart to you sir.

My husband (who a proud airman and even more prouder Christian) and I and our children belong to a Bible believing congregation of spirit filled Christian patriots not more than 2 miles from the military base we are stationed at.

For years we have watched you and your tribe attack Christian military men who spread The Redeeming Word of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Course you never would attack a jew man or moslem military man because you and your little tribe of bullies only target us Christians.

We airmen and our church brother snd sisters are sick of the likes of you and yours taking our free religious rights away from us because we worship Jesus. Your just a villain who picks on Christians in the armed services. Turn the other cheek? My butt we will when it comes to you.

This Halloween should be dedicated to you and the MFRF because you all are the evilest of demons and you don’t even wear a costume.
I have seen the many pictures of you and you wear your evil well sir. You should be ashamed of yourself. In the service of satan. And with a smile too.

Plus being jew you would think you would love Christians who saved your tribe from the Nazis who had just had had enough of them.

Your a disgrace to your jew clan and AF Academy our military and our America. Not your America sir. Our Great America.

Jesus will take care of you and MFRF henchmen when you die sir. Nothing you will say will save you from the flames of Lake of Fire.

We pray we get to watch and enjoy Christ’s revenge from Heaven. You reap what you sew sir. And you reap the burning of your flesh in satan’s hell forever. LEAVE US CHRISTIANS ALONE DEMON!

Do not try to talk your evil back to us with your clever voice of satan Mr. Wienstien. This e-mail will reject your satan heresy sir.

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Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell

From: Mike MFO <mfocontact@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Halloween’s Evilest Demon Date: October 28, 2018 at 11:18:51 AM MDT
To: Michael L Weinstein <mikeyw4444@icloud.com>

Dear (name withheld),
I’m sorry, I don’t know how to pronounce your name. I note it has an x in it. You’re not, by any chance, related to Malcolm? Somehow I don’t think so.

While I appreciate your credentials, having presented yourself as the wife of a “proud airman and even more prouder (sic) Christian,” I suggest you reconsider the grammar. But that aside, speaking “from the heart,” as you claim to do, is appreciated.

In that vein, let me point out that you’ve misspelled Mr. Weinstein’s name. I’m sure it was an innocent mistake, but I know as a good Christian you’d want to be sure you were putting things correctly.

Assuming you consider me part of Mr. Weinstein’s “tribe,” as you suggested, let me try to clarify a few things in the hope you’ll take the information back to the Bible believing congregation of spirit filled Christian patriots to which you, your husband and your children belong.

First, if you’ve actually watched our work “for years,” as you say, you’ve seriously missed the point of what we’re doing. I urge you to pay attention more closely. You see, we have no problem with “Christian military men who spread the Redeeming Word of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” That’s their privilege, as long as they do so in the proper time, place and manner as prescribed by military regulations.

You see, if you had in fact watched our work carefully, you’d know we don’t “attack” people for their beliefs, as you have claimed here. We do have a problem, of course, when people who believe their particular faith is the one and only true belief system and demand everyone else believe just as they do or suffer the fires of whatever hell their belief provides. That contradicts every American’s constitutional right to believe as she or he chooses. It is against the law and when it happens we see that it is stopped.

Further, when you suggest, as you have here, “you never would attack a jew (sic) man or a moslem (sic) military man because you and your little tribe of bullies only target us Christians,” you’re entirely wrong. I hate to have to say that, but it’s what happens when you don’t pay close attention. (And, speaking of attention, you really should pay more of it to spelling and grammar.) To your point, we oppose the imposition of any belief system, whether the ones you’ve misspelled here or the many others, on the women and men in the military. The freedom to believe as one chooses, whether it be commitment to a religion or no religion, a faith, a creed or something of one’s own construction, is a fundamental American right, and our mission is to defend that right.

So you see, when you say you and your church brethren and sisters “are sick of the likes of you and yours taking our free religious rights away from us because we worship Jesus,” you are again, I’m sorry to say, wrong on every point. We’re not taking your “free religious rights away” and we have no problem with your worship of Jesus. Now, you may think we’re taking your rights away if you think it’s your right to shove your beliefs down the throat of others, but I can’t imagine a “spirit filled Christian” who speaks “from the heart” would do such a thing. Can you?

And that’s the critical question, isn’t it? It’s one that is raised when you call Mr. Weinstein “a villain who picks on Christians in the armed services” when he does nothing of the kind. Because he calls out bigots who demean those who don’t share their belief system and some of those bigots happen to call themselves Christians doesn’t make Mr. Weinstein a villain, it just exposes fake Christians for what they actually are: hypocrites.

Speaking of which, Ms. Spirit Filled Christian Patriot who Speaks from the Heart, your comment about your “butt” when referring to turning the other cheek makes abundantly clear that you are one of those faux-Christians who proclaim their devotion to Jesus while picking and choosing which of his teachings you’ll honor and which you’ll ignore.

How does Jesus feel, do you suppose, when someone who claims to be a “spirit filled Christian” could even think of the words, “Plus being jew you would think you would love Christians who saved your tribe from the Nazis who had just had had enough of them.” Have you no shame, Ms. x? No, you clearly have none. You, who claim to be a believer in Jesus, can find it in what passes for your heart to infer that it was the Jewish people and their behavior, or, truth be spoken, their very existence, that caused the Nazis to lose patience with them and eliminate millions of them – each one of whom was a brother or sister of Jesus himself – from the face of the earth.

Your casual inhumanity, madam, is disgusting. It is the kind of mindlessness that not only tolerates but creates the madness acted out by yet another crazed, hate-filled person in Pittsburg, PA, yesterday who slaughtered human beings because he, too, “had had enough of them.” I suspect he, too, was filled with spirit. One wonders, in comparing their results, how different his spirit is from your own.

So now, having clarified just who you are and where you stand, I can properly file your hopelessly anti-grammatical, grossly misspelled message and your embarrassingly incoherent attacks on Mr. Weinstein and the MRFF in the round file with the rest of the painfully stupid messages we get from self-righteous people like you who claim to be passionately devoted to Christ yet because they have no comprehension of the true meaning of Christianity, treat it like a cult.

Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)

Trump Adminstration Flies Under Color of Alt Right; Denied Holocaust Gassing During Passover

Zyklon B labels shown as evidence at the Nuremberg trials
The first and third panels contain the German Pest Control Company
emblem and the brand name Zyklon. The center
panel reads "Poison Gas!" "Cyanide Preparation! [skull and crossbones]
to be opened and used only by trained personnel."
The labels were used as evidence at the
International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Holocaust Remembrance Day, (Yom Hashoah), this year is April 24. It would be fitting to do something, say something, express something as an openly anti-Semitic Trump adminstration stains the world.

Update: See (Fandos, Landler, NYT).

Each new utterance on the Holocaust by Trump administration officials should lead thinking people to question the very decency of the American presidency.

This week, the latest imbecilic Holocaust rant emitted during Passover by White House spokesperson, Sean Spicer, follows by weeks the series of prepared anti-Semitic histrionics by high-level administration staffers during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, and subsequent Holocaust-related follow-up statements in January and February that shocked the world, (Mal Contends).

Trump had campaigned in the months leading to the November 2016 Election Day using anti-Semitic tropes, drawing a respectfully appalled response in the American political culture.

At a White House briefing this week, Spicer justified the missile strike in Syria by falsely claiming even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons.

From NYT: " ... misconstruing the facts of the Holocaust — Nazi Germany’s brutally efficient, carefully orchestrated extermination of six million Jews and others — Mr. Spicer instead drew a torrent of criticism and added to the perception that the Trump White House lacks sensitivity and has a tenuous grasp of history."

Madness. Calls for Spicer's resignation abound.

White House spokesperson Sean Spicer raises
outcry with talk of Hitler, Assad
and Poison Gas (Fandos, Landler, NYT)

That the Trump adminstration—already staffed with anti-Semites, white supremacists and Alt Right crazies—has neither a fundamental understanding nor a decent appreciation of the Holocaust should lead to an intimidate eight-day halt of non-vital United States government operations. Spicer's resignation is not enough.

Spcier's comments are not a communication problem, not a mistake, they evince an indecent administration.

Every member of Congress should refuse to enter their offices and the Capitol, and district offices. As well, the closing of all Congressional offices is warranted until a full accounting by the Trump adminstration is accomplished.

This won't happen of course, the rightwing crazies and white supremacists hold sway in the United States, and resistance is weakening.

Notes Alex Emmons in The Intercept, whose text is reproduced below:

While defending Donald Trump’s strike in Syria, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Tuesday that not even Adolf Hitler used chemical weapons during the World War II.

'You had a — someone as despicable as Hitler — who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons. So you have to, if you’re Russia, ask yourself is this is a country and a regime that you want to align yourself with?'

When asked for clarification, Spicer said that he meant dropping chemical weapons on unsuspecting towns of Germans.

'When it comes to Sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Ashad [sic] was doing. … He brought them into the Holocaust center, I understand that.'

Spicer continued:

'In the way that Assad used them, where he went to towns, dropped them down to innocents — into the middle of towns — I appreciate the clarification there, that was not the intent.'

After the news conference, Spicer issued yet another statement, this one in writing:"In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust, however, I was trying to draw a contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on innocent people."

[For the edification of the Trump administrator:] According to the American Chemical Society, Hitler stockpiled large amounts of Sarin gas during the Second World War, but never used them on a European battlefield.

But it is common knowledge that poison gas was his method of choice for the mass murder of Jews, LGBT people, and others during the Holocaust. More than a million people were killed by the poison gas Zyklon B — a derivative of cyanide — at the Auschwitz camp alone.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates that Hitler’s overall death toll includes as many as 6 million Jews, over 7 million non-Jewish Soviet citizens, nearly 2 million non-Jewish Polish civilians, people with disabilities, Gypsies, and an undetermined number of political prisoners and LGBT people.

Artist and intellectuals risked their lives in NAZI-occupied territories in expressing opposition to fascists, militarism and genocide, (a word  did not exist prior to 1944, during World War II). Their work lives today.

Today, the Trump adminstration is launching a war on art, Only fools laugh at the future:

George Grosz, God of War, 1940 - Fear of the Other

Recall the anti-Semitic nature of he Trump adminstration revealed in January, (Mal Contends):

George Grosz, God of War, 1940 -
Fear of the Other

The White House failure to mention the destruction of European Jews and anti-Semitism in its statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day occurred because the White House is "incredibly inclusive" and takes "into account all of those who suffered," White House spokesperson Hope Hicks said in remarks to CNN this weekend, (Tapper, CNN).

The explanation by Hicks pleads that so many millions were slaughtered in the Holocaust that mentioning the European Jews is not consonant with the stated White House commitment to inclusion.

That Hicks' remarks are nonsense threatens to blow into a controversy the likes of which not even Trump has yet seen.

Millions of Americans openly assert Trump is a fascist and white supremacist, abetted by white supremacist and chief White House political advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.

The mission of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is to bear witness today, and the suggestion that inclusion compels the White House to not mention Jews and anti-Semitism is scandalous.

Writes CNN's Jake Tapper:

The presidential reference to the 'innocent people' victimized by the Nazis without a mention of Jews or anti-Semitism by the White House on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was a stark contrast to statements by former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Anti-Defamation League Director Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted that the "@WhiteHouse statement on #HolocaustMemorialDay, misses that it was six million Jews who perished, not just 'innocent people' and 'Puzzling and troubling @WhiteHouse #HolocaustMemorialDay stmt has no mention of Jews. GOP and Dem. presidents have done so in the past.'

Asked about the White House explanation that the President didn't want to exclude any of the other groups Nazis killed by specifically mentioning Jews, Greenblatt told CNN that the United Nations established International Holocaust Remembrance Day not only because of Holocaust denial but also because so many countries -- Iran, Russia, Poland, and Hungary, for example -- specifically refuse to acknowledge Hitler's attempt to exterminate Jews, 'opting instead to talk about generic suffering rather than recognizing this catastrophic incident for what is was: the intended genocide of the Jewish people.' 

The latest [January 2016] outrage by the White House follows Trump's executive order banning Muslims from seven countries from entering the United States in an act that signals Trump's open commitment to racism and Islamophobia as official policy.

Trump Human Rights Message Falls Flat, Damage-Control Project Addressing Admin Anti-Semitism Failing

White House spokesperson, Sean Spicer, hits Anne Frank Center
for not praising Donald Trump, (Salon),(CNN). Replied the Frank
Center executive director, Steven Goldstein, to Salon Magazine:
"The audacity of Sean Spicer to demand from the podium that
the Anne Frank Center salute this president for his pathetic attempts
to recognize anti-Semitism. ... What universe are these
people living in?"

Remarks this week made by Donald Trump after a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture were as genuine as a serial arsonist's stated concerns over violations of fire safety codes.

Said Trump reading his statement from a teleprompter, "This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms. The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil."

What an ass, this anti-Semitic piece of human filth.

Fortunately, major civil rights organizations refuse to normalize Trump, and recoil at the notion they should take at face value the words of an openly racist administration dotted with open anti-Semites.

The new message of civil rights from the Trump adminstration follows a recent spate of anti-Semitic bomb threats, and desecrations in the Midwest inflicted at a historically Jewish cemetery, met with a yawning response from the young presidency.

Vice-president Mike Pence paid a surprise visit this week to the desecrated cemetery in Missouri in an effort at further damage control as perceptions harden that the administration's alliances with white supremacists and anti-Semites will continue.

Coming from east-central Wisconsin, this writer assures readers the Trump administration's continuing stroking of, and obsequious posture toward anti-Semites is accomplished willfully and is carefully crafted; which is to say anti-Semitism still plays well in rural America, emphatically in Wisconsin.

Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect condemns
Donald Trump,  (Twitter)

Feb. 21, 2017 statement from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect executive director, Steven Goldstein:

"The President's sudden acknowledgment is a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own Administration. His statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting anti-Semitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record. Make no mistake: The anti-Semitism coming out of this administration is the worst we have ever seen from any administration. The White House repeatedly refused to mention Jews in its Holocaust remembrance, and had the audacity to take offense when the world pointed out the ramifications of Holocaust denial. And it was only yesterday, President’s Day, that Jewish Community Centers across the nation received bomb threats, and the President said absolutely nothing. When President Trump responds to Anti-Semitism proactively and in real time, and without pleas and pressure, that’s when we’ll be able to say this president has turned a corner. This is not that moment."
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Feb. 22, 2017 statement of Steven Goldstein, made in reply to the White House spokesperson's public condemnation of Goldstein for his failure to praise Donald Trump in Goldstein's Feb. 21 above statement, (Salon Magazine):

"The audacity of Sean Spicer to demand from the podium that the Anne Frank Center salute this president for his pathetic attempts to recognize anti-Semitism. The imagery is callous at best and constitutes dark prejudice at worst. What has become of our democracy, that a press secretary for the president — let alone the president himself — expects applause simply for saying that anti-Semitism exists? Next President Trump will announce that the United States has achieved the first landing of a person on the moon and also expect us to applaud. What universe are these people living in"

He also said the president has repeatedly called out anti-Semitism. When? When? This weekend passed, including this Sunday, during which over a hundred graves were desecrated, and on Monday bomb threats were made to eleven Jewish community centers, and he remained silent. Then he read a statement with all the passion of a B-grade actor auditioning for a high school play. You looked at him and it didn’t look like he could even connect to the words — and this is a president who rarely reads anything prepared — and the one chance he gets to speak about anti-Semitism, he needs notes!"

"When will our nation get fed up with this president trotting out the religion of his daughter and his son-in-law as a talking point shield against the anti-Semitic conduct of his administration? So what if his daughter is Jewish and his son-in-law is Jewish? That’s like saying some of our best daughters are Jewish. By this logic, his daughter is also a woman, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a misogynist."

Trump Playing with Xenophobia with His Own Dangerous Pathology

Asked about anti-Semitism, Trump ignores question,cites
2016 Electoral College win in response,
(Brian Williams, 11th Hour)

Anti-Semitic incidences on the rise, you ask? Hey, I won 306 Electoral College votes, says Trump.

What?

It's nothing new for a politician to ignore a reporter's question and offer a reply that is utterly unresponsive to what is asked. Some call it message discipline.

However, Donald Trump has a problem, the problem of the psychopath—displaying no empathy and a self-absorption so complete that not even a query about anti-Semitism and hate can pierce his pathology.

Here is the question directed at Trump at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday:

Question: "Mr. President, Since your election campaign and even after your victory, we've seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic, anti-Semitic incident[s] across the United States, and I wonder what do you say to those among the Jewish community in the States and in Israel and maybe around the world who believe and feel that your administration is playing with xenophobia and maybe racist tones."

Trump: "Well, I just want to say that we are very honored by the victory that we had. 306 Electoral College votes. We were not supposed to crack 220, you know that, right? There was no way to 221. But then they said there's no way to 270....

Text of reporter's question and Trump's reply is below; from Sopan Dap of the New York Times, (Twitter):

(Twitter)

 Video below from Brian Williams 11th Hour, and Talking Points Memo: