At an event hosted by the conservative Zionist Organization of America, President Trump renewed his condemnation of anti-Semitism and, in turn, drew sharp criticism from an institution he singled out by name: Columbia University.
In a speech on Tuesday before a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump said the government was “redoubling our efforts to confront an ugly hate that expresses itself in anti-Semitic attacks.” But he also lambasted Columbia for not pulling funding from the university’s campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
Mr. Trump began his speech by lauding the Zionist Organization of America for “being in the forefront in the fight against the poisonous crescendo of anti-Semitism” and by praising New York’s Orthodox Jewish community as “living testimony to the great promise of the American dream.”
But going on to talk about anti-Semitism in college, the president called out by name Columbia and its $32 million subsidy of a campus Palestine group. He called it “totally unacceptable to the American Jewish community, the community that assimilated and embraced more than World War II refugees than all other countries combined.” In addition, members of Students for Justice in Palestine, he said, essentially advocate for the “obliteration of the Jewish state” and that “their wild-eyed and poisonous hatred is kept alive on college campuses throughout the land.”
He went on: “And it is far more prevalent today than ever before.”
Samara Kappalman, a spokeswoman for the university, criticized the president’s speech and said it reneged on his “call for greater tolerance.”
“We categorically reject characterization of Columbia as anything other than a place that opposes anti-Semitism and all forms of prejudice,” she said.
Indeed, as Mr. Trump used his speech to recap his administration’s actions to combat extremism, little of it was directed toward fighting far-right radicals. In December, sometimes shortly before an attack would occur, he inexplicably invoked the threat of “radical Islamic terror,” nettling an aide trying to stop him.
The president on Tuesday said he was keeping the United States embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, a promise fulfilled on Monday when his ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, a strong critic of Israeli leftists and of the so-called Palestinian right of return, moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
“We stand in firm support of Israel’s right to defend its sovereignty, security and the lives of its people, and believe the United States should not be criticizing the Israelis as we have done over the past several weeks,” Mr. Friedman said, referring to the announcement last month by the United Nations Security Council citing Israel for failing to stop the recent string of violence in the West Bank.
Reform and Conservative movement representatives from across the nation joined Mr. Trump in Palm Beach, including Rabbi Pesach Lerner, who leads the National Council of Young Israel, a fast-growing umbrella federation for Orthodox congregations.
Kenneth S. Lipper, who leads the philanthropic Joseph Meyerhoff Family Foundation and also helped organize Tuesday’s visit, said he took “exception to people calling Jews a special interest group.”
He said Mr. Trump made clear in his remarks that Jews should sue anti-Semites like George Soros, who he falsely accused last year of being the mastermind behind migrants crossing from Mexico toward the United States.
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