Springfield's Trump-voting rabbi claims Haitian immigrants lack 'Western civilized values'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : And when Trump made his comments during the debate, an estimated 67 million Americans were tuned in.
41% : In 2020 he recorded a video message for the Republican Jewish Coalition in which he said Trump "has done more for Israel and the Jewish people than any of his predecessors," and charged that "the religion of many American Jews is no longer Judaism, it's progressivism.
39% : "Kozberg sees another relevance to the current moment in Jewish text: He compares Trump and Vance to the Biblical figure of Yiftach, or Jephthah, a judge who became a leader of the Israelites and who, notoriously, had to sacrifice his own daughter after making an ill-conceived promise to God.
38% : "Trump was repeating an idea that took off after a Springfield woman posted on social media that she believed a neighbor's pet could have been eaten by Haitian migrants (the woman has since deleted her post and recanted it).
35% : "Kozberg spoke to JTA about a week after Trump vaulted into the national consciousness a conspiracy theory that had already percolated online for months and hastened right-wing antipathy toward Haitians in Springfield.
34% : "He explained, "From a Jewish point of view, things are never black or white."The rabbi said he would still vote for Trump in the fall.
27% : Many cited their own families' immigrant histories as a reason to oppose Trump.
24% : "Like Trump, J.D. Vance and others who have taken aim at Springfield's immigrant population, Kozberg says he believes the new arrivals -- most of whom are in the country legally -- are changing the city's character for the worse.
24% : They're eating the cats," Trump declared during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10.

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