When Eric accused Bob Woodward of undermining the Trump administration for money, he used a term, ‘shekels,’ which isn’t normative American slang. Bill Kristol, a conservative pundit and the leader of the ‘Never Trump’ movement simply asked on Twitter: “Is Eric too stupid to know he’s being anti-Semitic?” Is this proof of Jew-hatred in the first family?
Jonathan Tobin for Haaretz
Nobody was surprised when Eric Trump took a shot at Bob Woodward after the Washington Post legend’s behind-the-scenes expose of his father’s White House portrayed it as one on the verge of chaos.
But when the younger Trump accused Woodward of undermining the administration for money, his choice of words provided more ammunition for those who believe the Trump father and sons have engaged in dog-whistling that is encouraging alt-right anti-Semites.
The offending phrase uttered in the Trump-friendly forum of the Fox News Network’s “Fox and Friends” morning talk show was, “It’ll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels.”
To Israelis and those who know Israel well, the word shekel simply means money. Urban Dictionary also notes that the word is popular slang for cash in Ireland. But it’s also frequently referenced on alt-right websites, and is the sort of language that neo-Nazis use to refer to traditional anti-Semitic memes about Jews and money.
Most of those commenting noted that shekels isn’t normative American slang like “bucks” or “dough” or even a more antique word like “somolian.” Since Eric Trump also probably doesn’t speak Hebrew, many jumped to the not entirely unreasonable conclusion that he got it from reading far right websites.
The same charge has been lodged against his older brother Donald Jr. for tweeting an image of a frog meme beloved by anti-Semites.
As far as New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman and the author of a recent book on anti-Semitism was concerned, it was language straight out of “The Daily Stormer.”
Bill Kristol, a conservative pundit and the leader of the Never Trump movement simply asked on Twitter: “Is Eric too stupid to know he’s being anti-Semitic?“
While Eric Trump is, unlike his sister Ivanka and brother-in-law Jared Kushner, not part of the administration, this incident is being connected to comments by his father dating back to the beginning of his presidential campaign that are viewed as racist.
In particular, Trump’s reaction to last year’s neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville Virginia, in which he conflated anyone who opposed the removal of Confederate statues with the murderous racists who marched there, by saying there “very fine people” on both sides, encapsulated what seems like either a deliberate appeal to hate or a puzzling indifference to the obvious implications of such words.
What really galls the jews is the Truth! Simple as that. The Truth is this septic tank scum’s Kryptonite.
Aaaaaah, the sweet sound of “jew hatred”. It just falls off the tongue. Hearing it more and more as of late. Yes, the truth is kryptonite to Judea, Inc. A sin to them like no other.
“Bill Kristol, a conservative pundit and the leader of the Never Trump movement simply asked on Twitter: “Is Eric too stupid to know he’s being anti-Semitic?“”
Huh? Am I missing something? Does everyone know something I don’t?!
Surely the substantive issue is not whether shekels or mere mention of them is ‘anti-semitic’, but whether Bob Woodward is actually being paid in shekels … or Federal Reserve Notes?
And this article, if such it can be called, doesn’t make it any clearer.
If I were a bettin’ man, I’d say he was being paid in Federal Reservation Notes. But it hardly matters. They both come from the SAME SOURCE. Namely, they are both issued as debt to the Rotshite-owned and operated central banksterin’ cabal that has, not just the Anglophone tax farms in its grip, but the entire world. Well, the entire world that hasn’t been bombed yet. And that would be most.
But no, Jonathan Tobin dedicates his entire article to questioning whether or not the use of the word ‘shekel’ is ‘anti-semitic’ or qualifies as “the sort of language that neo-Nazis use to refer to traditional anti-Semitic memes about Jews and money”.
Groan. The same old canards. The same furious snow screening. The same old hysteria about ‘neo-nazis’ under the bed. I for one frequently question the Jewish stranglehold on the money supply. Would Janathan denounce me as a ‘neo-nazi’? Preposterous. I have always self-identified as a ‘centrist’. Bang smack in the center.
After all … no matter where you go in this world and this life … there you are.
I guess the take-home message must be that Bob Woodward is NOT a credible witness. He too is yet another servant of MAMON.
One notes with interest that Malcolm Turnbull, the recently Primed Monster of Australia, is to be replaced in his local bye-bye election by former Australian ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma.
And the great Rachid Taha … dead at 59 … “Je chante pour aller jusqu’au bout de ma folie” … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn3uTRLY16U
I shall use the word more often…can’t wait to use it during a meeting with government officials or real estate developers.
@BillKristol, so what that Eric used the word ‘shekels’? Only Jews can talk about or allude to Jews, else we’re anti-Semitic ? How does one talk about the perpetrators of the mass murder of 66,000,000 Christians in communist Russia without mentioning the word Jews?