Subject: Re: WaPo: New York Times staffer tweets out op-ed critical of Trump, faces anti-Semitic avalanche
From: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
To: "Sarge, Matthew" <[email-masked]>, "Roberts, Kelly" <[email-masked]>, RR2 <[email-masked]>, "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 04:21:59 -0700

This is on top of a Monday article in WSJ that white supremacists said they found advancement through trumps candidacy. I want to try to put together a release with quotes from NJDC, ADL, other orgs, and the chair. Thoughts?

On May 19, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Sarge, Matthew <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

There was a Politico article from earlier in the week about Jewish Republicans' reluctance to back Trump because of these repeated incidents

“No one interviewed by POLITICO accused Trump of anti-Semitism, but multiple people pointed to his most extreme supporters — and his unwillingness, at times, to condemn them — as sources of concern for Jewish voters across the political spectrum. Trump has also faced criticism for being slow to condemn the Ku Klux Klan. Asked whether all of that should give Jewish voters pause, Greenblatt replied, ‘yeah,’ noting the anti-Semitic online abuse from self-described Trump supporters that a journalist (who is also a POLITICO magazine writer) faced after writing a profile of Melania Trump that the candidate’s wife criticized. Trump refused to condemn the vitriol from those supporters when asked about it directly on CNN. ‘The kind of anti-Semitic invective they used was so frightening,’ Greenblatt said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-jewish-republicans-223196
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Subject: WaPo: New York Times staffer tweets out op-ed critical of Trump, faces anti-Semitic avalanche

Story in link has screenshots of the tweets. This is not the first reporter to get anti-Semitic threats after covering Trump. When asked about it previously Trump had “no message” for his supporters sending Ioffe death threats and Melania claimed the reporter “provoked” it

New York Times staffer tweets out op-ed critical of Trump, faces anti-Semitic avalanche<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/05/19/new-york-times-staffer-tweets-out-op-ed-critical-of-trump-faces-anti-semitic-avalanche/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>
Washington Post – Erik Wemple

Last night, Jonathan Weisman tweeted out an opinion piece from The Post by Robert Kagan: “This is how fascism comes to America.” Via Trump, that is. “This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes (although there have been salutes, and a whiff of violence) but with a television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac ‘tapping into’ popular resentments and insecurities, and with an entire national political party — out of ambition or blind party loyalty, or simply out of fear — falling into line behind him,” writes Kagan.

A deputy Washington editor at the Times, Weisman included a portion of that sentence in his tweet — along with another tweet on a related topic — and let it fly. Hatred responded.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, among many other Twitter observers, took note of Weisman’s efforts to highlight this scourge:

On Twitter and other social-media platforms, it can be difficult to determine who supports whom. Yes, several of the people making anti-Semitic statements had references to the presumptive GOP nominee in their Twitter IDs and photos, though those references could mean anything. What has been clear for some time is that criticizing Trump while being Jewish is a hazardous online activity. On Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, a prominent conservative commentator, documented the anti-Semitic backlash that followed his own opinionating about Trump. And cited more from where that came:

It’s not just me, of course. Jake Tapper of CNN now says he’s received anti-Semitic tweets “all day.” My friend Bethany Mandel, another orthodox Jew who opposes Trump, just bought herself a gun out of fear of unhinged Trump supporters. John Podhoretz of Commentary says he receives tweets consistently from “literally neo-Nazi White supremacists, all anonymous…I don’t think I can attribute being a supporter of Trump to being a validator or an expresser of these opinions, but something was let loose by him.” Noah Rothman of Commentary tweets, “It never ends. Blocking doesn’t help either. They have lists, on which I seem to find myself.”

Shapiro Wednesday offered a further exploration at National Review under the headline, “Trump’s Anti-Semitic Supporters.” He writes: “I’ve experienced more pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism since coming out against Trump’s candidacy than at any other time in my political career. Trump supporters have threatened me and other Jews who hold my viewpoint. They’ve blown up my e-mail inbox with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They greeted the birth of my second child by calling for me, my wife, and two children to be thrown into a gas chamber.”

As this blog reported, journalist Julia Ioffe filed a police report after receiving anti-Semitic threats stemming from the backlash against her story in GQ about Melania Trump. “The Trumps have a record of kind of whistling their followers into action,” Ioffe said at the time.