Long Beach Jewish Life November 2016 | Page 13

show up most in the bios of Twitter users sending anti-Semitic tweets to journalists are ‘Trump,’ ‘nationalist,’ ‘conservative,’ ‘American’ and ‘white.'”

Some have claimed that politicians can't always pick their supporters. But it should be noted that after presidential candidate Ronald Reagan received an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan, he responded by writing a letter to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Reagan wrote, “Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse. The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country, and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood.”

So what to make of Donald Trump and the Jews? Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson's newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, became the only major newspaper in the United States to endorse Donald Trump's