“Not to overdramatize, but it feels dangerous,” she said. “I’ve heard people say this feels like the first step Online Cigarettes Store USA toward us wearing yellow stars.”
The politics of the executive order seemed clear when it was signed Wednesday. Attending the signing ceremony were prominent Jews and evangelical Christians, Democrats and Republicans, and some big-name donors. Trump, at a party after the ceremony, lavished praise on Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson: “He’s got no cash problem — that, I can tell you.”
“My administration will never tolerate the suppression, persecution or silencing of the Jewish people,” Trump Newport 100s Box declared at the ceremony, which doubled as a Hanukkah party.
In rattling off all he had done for Israel’s government — moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal — the president appeared intent on expanding his support among Jewish voters, or at least peeling off portions of a small and largely Democratic voting bloc, as well as pleasing evangelical supporters and major donors like Adelson.
The executive order “will go down in history as one of the most important events Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes in the 2,000-year battle against anti-Semitism,” Alan Dershowitz, an informal legal adviser of the president, said at the ceremony.
But across the country, Jewish communities viewed Trump’s order in competing and discordant ways. It came on the heels of a rampage in New Jersey in which four people were killed in what the authorities are investigating as an anti-Semitic attack and an act of domestic terrorism. And many Jews were struck by their religion being placed under civil rights protections aimed at race or “national origin.”