Accusations of anti-Semitism directed at Donald Trump don’t add up, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner said Tuesday.
Kushner responded to a New York Daily Observer open letter published Tuesday that called him out for allowing his father-in-law to tweet an image of Hillary Clinton superimposed on $100 bills and next to a six-pointed star — a shape the Star of David uses. Kushner owns the Observer.
“I know that Donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking,” Kushner said in a statement. “... The suggestion that he may be intolerant is not reflective of the Donald Trump I know.”
Observer entertainment reporter Dana Schwartz penned the scathing letter to criticize Kushner for not speaking out against the tweet and supporting the Trump campaign claims the star was in fact a sheriff's star, was not intentional and came from an outside source.
“I’m asking you, not as a “gotcha” journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this? Because, Mr. Kushner, you are allowing this,” Schwartz wrote.
She then accused him of supporting a message that directly attacks his own religion, his wife and his daughter. And whether or not he thinks Trump actually is anti-Semitic, allowing a message like that to get out feeds the hatred of some Trump supporters.
“When you stand silent and smiling in the background, his Jewish son-in-law, you’re giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval,” she wrote.
