Jewish Dem slams Trump’s ‘attempt to use Israel as a diversion’

An American Jewish Democratic activist slams US President Donald Trump’s “racist diatribe” against progressive congresswomen, and says Trump’s repeated references to Israel in his accusations are “a transparent attempt to use Israel as a diversion.”

In a statement to the press, Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, says: “President Trump’s justification of his racist diatribe is a transparent attempt to use Israel as a diversion, which we strongly reject. Trump has exposed himself as America’s ‘Racist in Chief,’ and Republicans’ silence is complicity in his hateful agenda.”

The Democratic Jewish organization says it “promotes foreign and domestic policies consistent with socially progressive, pro-Israel, Jewish community values.”