{"id":19800,"date":"2017-02-16T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19800"},"modified":"2017-02-16T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:34:18","slug":"what-about-anti-semitism-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19800","title":{"rendered":"What about anti-Semitism, Mr. President?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anti-Semitism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19801\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anti-Semitism-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anti-Semitism-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anti-Semitism-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anti-Semitism.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Israeli reporter today posed\u00a0what I thought was a direct question for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>How would the president deal with increases in anti-Semitic rhetoric in the United States since his election? That&#8217;s the crux of the question directed at Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s response? Suffice to say it was way off the mark. He began by boasting\u00a0about his electoral victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/trump-anti-semitism-question-netanyahu-presser-235055?cmpid=sf\">The answer made no sense. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He mentioned something about his son-in-law, who is\u00a0Jewish, as is his daughter. He talked about all the &#8220;love&#8221; he is going to produce and\u00a0said he intends\u00a0to stop racism.<\/p>\n<p>The president didn&#8217;t condemn anti-Semitism, which drew a rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n<p>I am still shaking my head.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli reporter today posed\u00a0what I thought was a direct question for Donald Trump. How would the president deal with increases in anti-Semitic rhetoric in the United States since his election? That&#8217;s the crux of the question directed at Trump. The president&#8217;s response? Suffice to say it was way off the mark. He began by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What about anti-Semitism, Mr. President?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5],"tags":[405,1424],"class_list":["post-19800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-anti-semitism","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800","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=19800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19802,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions\/19802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}