'As Jews, we're all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice,' wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, the organization's CEO and national director.
President Donald Trump and his administration claimed that his weekend tweets telling American congresswomen to go back to the"totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," were okay because those women were anti-Israel.
He then tweeted that the congresswomen should apologize instead of himself."When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said," he wrote Monday morning.
Some believe Omar, a refugee from Somalia who is an American citizen, made anti-Semitic comments earlier this year when she criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and said they were paying politicians to support pro-Israeli policy. A picture taken on July 8, 2019, shows a square named after US President Donald Trump in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva.The Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish NGO which fights anti-semitism and racism, did not agree with the president's tweets about Israel.
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