His last reviews, for “Alien: Covenant” and “Wakefield,” ran May 19. Reed was notified of the decision last week, he said, concluding a career at the paper that lasted more than 25 years. Right now, this hate is directed to one of your employees, but the message applies equally to your wife and daughter.The New York Observer has laid off longtime film critic Rex Reed, in addition to several other members of its entertainment staff, in the latest cutbacks to the newspaper since owner Jared Kushner divested from the paper after the 2016 presidential election. Kushner, I invite you to look through all of those images in the slideshow above, the vast majority sent in your father-in-law’s name. Schwartz notes that Trump’s campaign has a way of attracting “hateful individuals”, and challenges Kushner to imagine his own family as the target: They referred to ovens, invited Schwartz to kill herself, and used images of Anne Frank and other Jewish caricatures. In the letter, Schwartz shares screen grabs of antisemitic hate speech that confronted her after she objected to the image online. And yet Donald Trump in his response chose not to condemn them, the anti-Semites who, by his argument were obviously misinterpreting the image, but the media. The worst people in this country saw your father-in-law’s message and took it as they saw fit. “Look at that image and tell me, honestly, that you just saw a ‘Sheriff’s star,’” writes Schwartz. The explanations, wrote Schwartz in her public letter, were “inane” and “condescending”. (The image in Trump’s original tweet was traced by Mic to a white supremacist message board.) The Trump campaign’s social media director, Dan Scavino, also tried his hand at cleaning up the mess, saying that he had lifted the image from an online source but it wasn’t hate speech and he would never offend anyone.

Though the original image was deleted, Trump did not apologize for it, or admit that it was derogatory, instead claiming that the star was a “sheriff’s star, or plain star”. Trump changed his Star of David to a circle.

A short time later, the tweet was deleted and reposted with a circle replacing the star. The controversy began when Trump tweeted an image of Clinton with a rain of cash behind her and the words “most corrupt candidate ever” inside a six-pointed star. The suggestion that he may be intolerant is not reflective of the Donald Trump I know.” I have personally seen him embrace people of all racial and religious backgrounds. “I know that Donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-semitic thinking. “My father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife,” the statement said. Kushner responded to the letter in a statement late Tuesday. Kushner has played an increasingly high-profile role in Trump’s campaign, participating at a high level in the decision last month to fire the former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, among other decisions. Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, converted to Judaism to marry Kushner in 2009. But I know many of his supporters are, and they believe for whatever reason that Trump is the candidate for them. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think he is. Because maybe Donald Trump isn’t anti-Semitic. But when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his Jewish son-in-law, you’re giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval. “I’m asking you, not as a ‘gotcha’ journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this?” writes Schwartz:īecause, Mr Kushner, you are allowing this. Schwartz challenges Kushner as a fellow Jewish member of the media to face what is happening in the barely concealed underbelly of his father-in-law’s campaign. Schwartz writes that she became a target of antisemitic hate speech after she took issue with a Trump tweet posted Saturday that included an image that Paul Ryan, the House speaker, on Tuesday called “antisemitic”.

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