For these reasons, Trump is attacking American Jews and courting the Evangelical

Mohamed Minshawi-Washington

"The support of Israel has received strong bipartisan support since the founding of the Jewish state. Today, because of Trump's policies and positions, this support may be subject to unprecedented shocks." With these words came the American Jewish response Marta LaCrosse to a question to the island Net on the repercussions of the President's recent statements about Jews.

Marta, who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, a neighboring state more than 70 years old, is no different from the position of more than 70 percent of US Jews who vote for Democrats.

According to the Pew Research Center, 71% of America's Jews voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and their voter turnout for Democratic candidates for the 2018 congressional elections - two years after Trump's rule - rose to 79%.

The president has been widely criticized for statements he made about American Jews, which some saw as anti-Semitic, while others saw them as hiding narrow electoral interests. Trump told reporters on Tuesday that "any Jewish vote for the Democrats means no knowledge or no great loyalty."

Trump and anti-Semitism

Trump's "disloyalty" is a taboo among American Jews who accuse those who use it against them as anti-Semites. "This phrase has been used by all anti-Semites since the Middle Ages in European monarchies to question the loyalty of Jewish nationals to the country in which they live," said Sister Alyssa Wise of the Jewish Voice of Peace Foundation.

It was not the first time Trump made the reference to "disloyalty" and Wise remembers what Trump said last May while meeting with members of the Jewish Republican Alliance, an American Jewish institution that advocates US-Israeli relations. "I spoke to your prime minister, Netanyahu," These words did not fully recognize the American Jewish American and anti-Semitism, while noting that he is not their president, but the Israeli prime minister.

Trump's critics took advantage of the language he used, and recalled the Nazi claim that Jews had double loyalty, and that their allegiance to Israel was greater than their homeland.

Rick Kaufman, an American Jew living in northwest Washington, told Al Jazeera Net that "it is ironic that Trump does everything he does for Israel, and is ultimately suspected of being anti-Semitic by some Jews because of what he says."

Voices of Protestant Christians

The religious factor is the most important cornerstone of Israel's sources of support within the United States, and Evangelical groups (right-wing Christians) are urging to ensure Israel's full control over all of the Holy Land of Palestine, believing that this accelerates the return of the second Christ.

Walter Russell Mead, a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations, believes that "American Protestant support for Jews and Israel existed before the Jews set foot on the emerging American state, and before Israel was founded."

He argues that the Evangelical doctrine is that before the end of the world Christ will return, staying in the earth for a thousand years with believing Christians, and then the world will end. But Christ, as you see this doctrine, will not return to earth until all Jews return to Palestine.

A study by the Pew Research Center in May found that Protestants and Evangelicals were more supportive of Trump's policies than American Jews. 42% of American Jews believe that Washington is supporting Israel too much, while only 22% of Protestants see this, and the percentage with Evangalical decreases to 15%.

Trump received 58% of Protestant voters against 39% for his rival, and Trump's support rose to 81% among Evangalicals, compared to 16% for Clinton.

Trump, King of Israel

The American president reprinted the tweet of the radio program, which focuses on conspiracy theory, and lavished Trump with praise for his support of the Jews and Israel. . Many Democrats and Republicans have expressed outrage at Trump's whimsical radio tweet.

The president's tweets came amid continued attacks on Muslim MPs Rachida Taleb and Ilhan Omar, who were denied entry to the occupied Palestinian territories a few days ago.

A day after the crisis began Trump's remarks, the president went back in his attack again on Jews who vote for the Democratic Party, saying, "Only the weak will challenge what I said that Jews who vote for the Democrats have great disloyalty to the Jewish people and Israel."