I don't think anyone believes that Jewish Republicans are specifically responsible for Trump's election. Given the geographic distribution of American Jews, they're unlikely to be in a position to impact presidential elections one way or the other.
I didn't say 'specifically' responsible. You can still call someone complicit in electing someone, even if their vote wasn't the tiebreaker.
if we're reading what is actually written, rather than going out of way to read her words in deliberate bad faith- it's a call for introspection rather than an accusation of culpability.
Fundamentally, it's a plea for unity among American Jews, contextualised in an awareness that this unity is incompatible with support of a white nationalist demagogue, however many Jerusalem's worth of greater goods Jewish Republicans might believe they are gaining from this support.
So basically, she's trying to
unify American Jewry around her own nutbag political beliefs. Now semantics are fun, but maybe your definition of unity is a little suspect if makes Martin Luther into a 'unifier' of the Christian world, since he only wanted all Christians to accept his theology.
If there's something controversial in this, it's not some obtuse accusation of culpability for the shooting, but rather the claim that the shooting challenges Jewish conservatives to decide whether their ultimate loyalties lie with Israel or Jewry, something which many of them had previously assumed to one and the same.
Sad how easily those Jews are
taken in by a white nationalist. We must be a very foolish people.
Why? I, like most people hereabouts, don't give a good rip what you were talking about previously. You were diverting into your usual "Israel should be allowed to be a rogue state and do things that any other state would be sanctioned into oblivion for" track, and I drew the short straw of kicking you in the teeth for it before you got very far because we're all pretty tired of hearing it.
No, I was making fun of Traitorfish's belief that Gentiles don't have a right to comment by applying that to Israel.
You decided I was seriously advocating that only Jews be allowed to comment on Israel, and posted your usual inane strawman.
"Very clearly", eh?
Do you think it was more broadly heard as a shout out to the Second Amendment, or more broadly heard as a shout out to situations in Israel?
And you are making a statement about the intent? Like, you think he meant to be speaking about the Israeli analog?
He's not speaking about Israel at all. He's speaking about the situation in Europe, where synagogues, Jewish schools, and kosher stores now have permanent police protection. This is a well known issue in the Jewish community and I think it's pretty clear he was directing those words to American Jews.
With the understanding that there are many underlying causes contributing to an event ...
"Imma kill the people helping the migrants" being said while Fox and 45 are strongly focusing on the 'threat' of said migrants means that saying 'Trump helped cause this' is reasonable.
I mean, ingestion of lead fumes probably contributed as well ... but still. The reason why he talked about the migrants is going to be strongly linked to Fox and 45 harping on about it.
Why aren't you laying some 'responsibility' for the
shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise at Bernie Sanders' feet, then? The guy was literally a campaign volunteer for Sanders, whereas the Tree of Life shooter
hated Trump because he is too pro-Jewish.
