Anti-Semitism is not limited to one political party, says Rabbi Abby Stein, who is protesting the convention in Chicago.
Stein did not object to the Republican National Convention, arguing that Republicans were less able to understand the “atrocity that was going on.”
“I think we He’s protesting the DNC Not because we think it’s a lost cause, but because we know it’s not,” Stein said.
“Anti-Semitism, like all forms of hatred, unfortunately knows no political boundaries,” he said. “I firmly believe and understand that anti-Semitism from the right is the greatest existential threat right now.”
His comments follow several incidents Trump has experienced criticized Jews who voted for Democrats. Yesterday, Trump claimed that there has been no such time for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
“Any Jew who voted for him or a Democrat should go out and get his head examined.” oshelp. “If you look at what is happening to Israel and the Jewish people right now, there has never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust. If you’re Jewish in America, there’s never been anything like it.”
In response, Stein argued that Trump’s rhetoric poses a great threat. He also said that the protest movement he was part of was negotiating to eliminate anti-Semitic incidents at its protests.
“Trump talks, uses love like ‘dual loyalty’, waits, says that there are Jews who do not vote but do not support the Republican Party, there is something wrong with them, straight to the rooms of Jews that Israel is really their country, etc. it is extremely harmful,” he said.