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This is the language Trump uses to
describe people of color and immigrants
Friend —
“Infest.” “Invade.” “Animals.”
This is the language Trump uses to describe people of color and
immigrants — from his campaign launch denigrating Mexicans and Muslims
to his comments this weekend attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings and the
city of Baltimore.
This blatant racism isn’t a distraction. It has a clear purpose: to
dehumanize black and brown people. It is a tactic with which Jews of
all races are painfully familiar, rhetoric identical to the language
that the Nazis used to justify genocide.
It’s
why I just wrote an op-ed in Haaretz calling on Jews to speak out and
take action. We’ve seen this before, and we can’t be silent now. Read
it here.
Trump’s white nationalist worldview holds that immigrants, Jews,
Muslims and people of color do not belong here.
This racism, exclusion, and hatred were echoed in
the Charlottesville chant “Jews will not replace us,”
motivated shooters in Pittsburgh, Christchurch,
Charleston, Poway, and now Gilroy, and drives brutal
policies like child detention, mass incarceration, and the
Muslim Ban.
As Jews, it is our obligation to condemn racism and xenophobia as
well as the overwhelming silence accompanying it. Our history tells us
the horrible cost of silence and inaction in the face of such
hatred.
Read
my just-published op-ed in Haaretz about Jewish communities rejecting
Trump’s violent white nationalism.
Trump’s racist lies and attacks aren’t just rhetoric. They are an
existential threat to every one of us.
It’s why our Jewish community cannot — and will not — be
silent. It’s why Bend the Arc has been leading Jewish
resistance to Trump since 2015, it’s why we worked so hard to flip the
House in 2018, and it’s why we’re mobilizing our resources now to grow
the Jewish movement to stop Trump in 2020.
We will continue to speak out and resist Trump’s agenda. We will
continue to reject white nationalism. We will continue to
fight for a multiracial democracy where all of our communities can
thrive.
In solidarity,
Stosh Cotler, CEO
P.S. Share
our op-ed on Facebook to help bring others into the fight against
racism and bigotry and for a thriving multiracial democracy.
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