{"id":15728,"date":"2016-07-05T12:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T12:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15728"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T12:45:43","slug":"star-of-david-or-sheriffs-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15728","title":{"rendered":"Star of David or ‘sheriff’s star’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gosh, I always thought I knew what the Star of David looked like.<\/p>\n

It’s an important symbol of the Jewish faith. I saw it daily while I was touring Israel in May-June 2009. The Israelis fly their national flag proudly and, yep, it has a Star of David on it.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/07\/trump-star-of-david-tweet-225081<\/a><\/p>\n

I must have been seeing things.<\/p>\n

You see, a campaign ad for Donald J. Trump showed up on a tweet that showed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and an image that looked for all the world like a Star of David, along with the words “Most Corrupt\u00a0Candidate Ever.”<\/p>\n

The ad drew immediate criticism from those who complained it was anti-Semitic. Trump’s campaign took it down immediately and then said the star on the ad didn’t portray the Star of David; Trump — the Republican presidential candidate — called it a “sheriff’s star.”<\/p>\n

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who now works for CNN, said the uproar is nothing more than\u00a0“political correctness run amok.”<\/p>\n

What … ?<\/p>\n

Two quick points and then I’m out.<\/p>\n

One is that the ad first appeared on a white supremacist website and we all know what many white supremacists think of Jews.<\/p>\n

Two, Trump took the ad down right away after criticism arose about its tone and tenor.<\/p>\n

If the ad was as innocent as Trump’s campaign says it is, why did the white supremacists run it and why was the campaign so quick to remove it?<\/p>\n

Just asking, man.<\/p>\n\n

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Gosh, I always thought I knew what the Star of David looked like. It’s an important symbol of the Jewish faith. I saw it daily while I was touring Israel in May-June 2009. The Israelis fly their national flag proudly and, yep, it has a Star of David on it. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/07\/trump-star-of-david-tweet-225081 I must have been … Continue reading Star of David or ‘sheriff’s star’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1043,6390,1424,2139,6389,5255],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cnn","tag-corey-lewandowski","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-star-of-david","tag-white-supremacists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15731,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}