There’s been a marked increase in the amount of anti-Semitic tweets aimed at Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser over the past week, the Anti-Defamation League has found.
The wave of anti-Semitic tweets from white nationalist accounts came as Steve Bannon was removed from the National Security Council’s Principals’ Committee and as Trump ordered missile strikes on a Syrian air base in retaliation for a chemical attack believed to be carried out by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
“What started as a few isolated anti-Semitic tweets suggesting that Jared Kushner should be ‘fired’ because of his ‘Jewish supremacist views’ has quickly metastasized into a full-blown onslaught of anti-Semitic hate speech,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the CEO of the ADL, said in a statement.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the tweets have argued that the Trump administration is trying to start a war to advance Israel’s interests and that Trump ditched his nationalist posture at the suggestion of Kushner and other Jewish members of the administration.
Tweets with the hashtag #fireKushner began circulating on Thursday with a tweet about Bannon’s removal from the NSC and the U.S. strikes in Syria, according to the ADL. Anti-Semitic tweets using the #fireKushner and #KushnerAtWar hashtags began circulating with increasing frequency on Friday, and by the end of that day, the ADL found that three hashtags about Kushner, some of which were associated with anti-Semitic tweets, were trending with about 130,000 mentions.
#KushnerAtWar is doing what he does for a living, …driving brown people out of valuable real estate to make way for wealthy Jewish tenants pic.twitter.com/BZqUfPOzH2
— TradWorker (@TradWorker) April 8, 2017
no more jewish wars #fireKushner #Syriahoax https://t.co/xrDgxHI7do
— AltGrey (@AltGrey1) April 7, 2017
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke joined the chorus of anti-Semitic tweets aimed at Kushner:
We are being brought down from within. ZIO Supremacists are the true enemy of the American people… not Assad, not Putin. #FireKushner pic.twitter.com/t0AqbHi7rV
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) April 9, 2017
“Believe me folks, I know all of the best people.” – Donald J. Trump
ZOG pic.twitter.com/gdV1lyF6Zw
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) April 9, 2017
The tweets followed Bannon’s removal from the NSC and reports on his waning power in the Trump administration. Before working for Trump, Bannon was the executive chairman at Breitbart News, which has served as a platform for the white nationalist “alt-right.”
Bannon and Kushner also have been at odds recently, reportedly prompting Bannon to consider resigning. New York Magazine reported that Kushner argued in favor of missile strikes against Syria following the chemical attack, while Bannon pushed for the Trump administration to stay out of it; Kushner’s line of thinking won out.
Following the missile strikes, Trump’s biggest alt-right fans railed against the administration for carrying out the strikes after the President had run on an “America first” message during the campaign.
Jared to his tormentors “You just wait! My father in law is president and he’s going to come after you. He really, really will!”
Deplorables will do what deplorables will do. I am simultaneously speechless and unsurprised (by the venem and volume of the tweet attacks.)
CONNECT THE 'BOTS…
I’ve got the solution, ‘DRRAIN THE SWAMP’, take the whole ‘BOT’
and relocate them to the FLORIDA EVERGLADES. I hear their swamp is in dire need of SWAMP BEASTS…The more the DEPLORABLE the better.
FIRE DONALD TRUMP.
This is probably beyond the capabilities of even large news organizations that might be interested, but I wonder how many of these tweets are of the same sort of bots with Russian origins that gave support to the Trump campaign that the Senate heard testimony about from Obama era security officials last week. Not saying there is not a lot of Jew hating out there, but could this just also be another clever move by the Russians to divide Trump’s supporters after so successfully cleaving many Democrats from Hillary?
“Establishment” Republicans like Ryan made their deal with the devil in supporting Trump. Trump made his own deal with the devil in going after the deplorable vote. I am not sure if Trump fully understood what he was doing, however.