Donald Trump has managed to unite Muslims and Jews in a way that few have ever managed to do

Trump’s Muslim ban was painfully evocative of Jewish stories of migration to the US – or tragic accounts of family members denied entry to the US as refugees, only to be killed in the Holocaust. Dozens of rabbis were recently arrested while demonstrating against the ban outside Trump Tower

A few weeks ago, Saturday night subway commuters in New York met with the sight of swastikas daubed onto their train‘s walls – and set about collectively removing them, appropriately enough, with hand sanitisers.

It wasn’t the first sighting of swastikas in New York since Donald Trump was elected President. But it came days after the White House intentionally omitted mention of Jewish victims in the President’s Holocaust Remembrance Day message. On that same day, Trump issued his ban on refugees and anyone from seven majority-Muslim countries. Put together, as these things have been, the Trump administration has united Muslim and Jewish communities in a way that few could manage.

read more HERE:   .http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-muslims-jews-antisemitism-israel-palestine-neo-nazi-holocaust-unique-a7579861.html

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