President Trump hosted a Hanukkah party at the White House on Tuesday night and spoke of his unwavering support of the Jewish people while calling out the antisemitism spouted by some lawmakers.
“As president of the United States, I will always support Jewish Americans and I will always be a friend and a champion to the Jewish people,” he stated bluntly.
He warned about the antisemitism among some members of Congress, specifically calling out leftist congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
“You have a Congress in particular which is becoming antisemitic. You have AOC plus three; you have those people like Ilhan Omar. She hates Jewish people,” Trump said.
“They hate Israel,” he continued. “And if you would have told me 15 years ago that that was possible, I would have said there’s no way. … You see what goes on in Australia or October 7. And then you have people that deny it ever happened. People deny the Holocaust, but you figure, well, that’s just many years; October 7 is not many years at all. And you have people that deny October 7. I saw tape; I wish I never saw it. But then they’ll say, ‘Oh, the tape was a rigged tape. It was a tape that never existed. They made it up. It’s just propaganda.’”
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Speaking of the antisemitism that has ramped up on university campuses and elsewhere, he declared, “I’m president, and the DOJ and Harmeet [Dhillon], we’re not going to let it happen.”
“We are deporting foreign jihadist sympathizers and terrorist supporters at record levels. We’re deporting them. We’re not putting them in jails,” he asserted.
“The story of Hanukkah reminds us that light will always prevail over darkness and faith [will] triumph over fear. Together, let us honor the eternal flame and the faith that has always protected the Jewish people. You are protected. You are special, special people,” he concluded.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who serves the Jewish community of Washington, D.C., said before he lit the menorah, “Mr. President, you know that I’m Jewish. You know that I’m American, but you may not know that a very large part of my family lives in Australia. That includes some of those who had escaped the attack and some who didn’t. And all I can say is listening to them on the other side of the world speak about you, you don’t just express solidarity, you practice solidarity with the Jewish people, perhaps in a way we’ve never seen before. We’ve had the strongest, deepest friend that Israel and the Jewish people have ever had here in the White House. … We’re going to light the menorah, which gives us a message of the victory of right over might, of justice over tyranny, of light over darkness. And it is especially in this time when the Jewish people has so much of a burden that we need this light. We need this strength. Not only from each other, but from you, Mr. President, who constantly remind the world that even if they all turn against us, God forbid, you never will.”
