11.12.2019 - 20:38 [ Independent.co.uk ]

‚A dangerous move to silence free speech‘: Jewish groups react to Trump‘s plan to designate Judaism as a nationality

“Trump’s executive order is not about keeping Jews safe. After a week in which he spewed classic antisemtiic tropes about Jews and money, this is just more anti-Semitism,” wrote Emily Mayer, the political director of the Jewish advocacy group IfNotNow, in a statement. “The order’s move to define Judaism as a ‘nationality’ promotes the classically bigoted idea that American Jews are not American.”