Trump’s criticism ignores his own insensitivities to Jewish people.
He used a Jewish Star of David to call Hillary Clinton corrupt
During his 2016 campaign, Trump tweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image featuring a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star — the Jewish Star of David — alongside her face.
Critics quickly raised alarm over the image. Using the symbol over a pile of money, they said, is blatantly anti-Semitic and reinforces hateful stereotypes of Jewish greed.
Though Trump insisted that the photo was harmless and was supposed to be seen as a sheriff’s badge not the star that Nazis forced Jews to sew onto their clothing during World War II. Some internet sleuthing by Mic revealed that the image was actually created by white supremacists and had appeared on a neo-Nazi forum shortly before Trump tweeted it.
He mocked Jews as greedy businesspeople
On the campaign trail in 2015, Trump attempted to relate to members of the Republican Jewish Coalition by invoking the stereotype of Jews as greedy, cunning businesspeople.
“I’m a negotiator, like you folks,” Trump told the crowd.
“Is there anyone who doesn’t renegotiate deals in this room?” Trump continued. “Perhaps more than any room I’ve spoken to.”
He also implied during that event that he didn’t expect to win support from the Jewish Republican group because he couldn’t be swayed by campaign donations
He hesitated to denounce white supremacy in Charlottesville
After a massive white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one counter-protester dead in August 2017, Trump took more than 48 hours to denounce the violence and initially said there was an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.”
White supremacists celebrated Trump’s reaction as a victory. On The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, users wrote that “Trump comments were good” and claimed he “said he loves us all.”
Trump’s hesitant response was no surprise given how long it took him to denounce the support of his presidential candidacy by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, an admitted anti-Semite.