ADL Condemns Donald Trump for “America First” Foreign Policy Approach

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is urging presidential candidate Donald Trump to reconsider his use of the phrase “America First” as a slogan describing his approach to foreign affairs, citing its anti-Semitic use in the months before Pearl Harbor by a group of prominent Americans seeking to keep the nation out of World War II.

The most noteworthy leader of the “America First Committee” was Charles Lindbergh, who sympathized with the Nazis and whose rhetoric was characterized by anti-Semitism and offensive stereotypes, including assertions that Jews posed a threat to the U.S. because of their influence in motion pictures, radio, the press, and the government.

“The undercurrents of anti-Semitism and bigotry that characterized the America First movement – including the assumption that Jews who opposed the movement had their own agenda and were not acting in America’s best interest – is fortunately not a major concern today,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO. “However, for many Americans, the term ‘America First’ will always be associated with and tainted by this history. In a political season that already has prompted a national conversation about civility and tolerance, choosing a call to action historically associated with incivility and intolerance seems ill-advised.”

In a letter to Mr. Trump, ADL urged him to refrain from using the slogan in the future.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Who is the ADL but a total secular self appointed paper organization. They advocate same gender marriage. Their leader is a mechalel Shabbos and worked under the Obama administration. The previous head caused more anti Semitism with all their lefty public statements. We should not give them any publicity. They oppose Torah values.

  2. The ADL is a worthless left wing Socialist organization. It has little to do with Yiddishkeit and more to do with political correctness. If the ADL could endorse, they would probably endorse Bernie Socialist Sanders.

    I overheard 2 DemocRats discussing the New York Presidential Primary a few weeks ago. One Demo asked the other Demo, “Who you gonna vote for, the Communist or the Criminal?”

  3. The ADL is a bunch of high-paid, self-appointed, self-serving secular Jews who have almost no connection to Torah Jewry.

    They “work” out of multi-million dollar offices in Manhattan.

    Who really cares what they say?

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