Politicians of both celebrations have justrecently raised alarms about events of antisemitism inthemiddleof mass presentations slamming Israel.
By Hannah Knowles, Washington Post
Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday called a fatal neo-Nazi rally a “peanut” compared with current demonstrations of the Israel-Gaza war – his mostcurrent minimizing of a 2017 white-supremacist occasion in Charlottesville over which Trump, as president, drew enormous blowback for stating that there were “very fine individuals on both sides.”
Trump keptinmind in an night social media post that President Biden had mentioned the violent occasion in Charlottesville as a significant inspiration to run for president versus Trump. “Well, if that’s the case, he’s done a actually awful task duetothefactthat Charlottesville is like a ‘peanut’ compared to the riots and anti-Israel demonstrations that are occurring all over our Country, RIGHT NOW,” Trump composed on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Politicians of both celebrations have justrecently raised alarms about occurrences of antisemitism inthemiddleof mass presentations slamming Israel. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) checkedout Columbia University on Wednesday as college school demonstrations spread and led to arrests.
But Trump’s remarks were a amazing framing of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which even some allies thoughtabout a low point in his presidency. White supremacists had collected in Charlottesville to demonstration the elimination of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in August 2017; the occasion included previous Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke as a speaker.
It turned fatal when a self-professed neo