An article on Breitbart.com sparked more than 1,500 tweets Sunday after it described William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, as a "Renegade Jew" for not supporting Donald Trump in his bid for the Republican nomination for president.
Kristol, who has opposed Trump's run for the presidency nearly since the New York billionaire announced his intentions, has worked to organize a third-party candidate to challenge Trump in the general election.
The headline on the story read, “Bill Kristol: Republican spoiler, renegade Jew prepares third party effort to block Trump’s path to White House.” David Horowitz, who wrote the piece, never used the term in the story, but said Kristol’s actions were a “political miscalculation.” He used the word “Jew” in the last paragraph, but was not referring to Kristol.
“I am a Jew who has never been to Israel and has never been a Zionist in the sense of believing that Jews can rid themselves of Jew hatred by having their own nation state. But half of world Jewry now lives in Israel, and the enemies whom Obama and Hillary have empowered — Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, ISIS, and Hamas — have openly sworn to exterminate the Jews. I am also an American (and an American first), whose country is threatened with destruction by the same enemies. To weaken the only party that stands between the Jews and their annihilation, and between America and the forces intent on destroying her, is a political miscalculation so great and a betrayal so profound as to not be easily forgiven.”
Kristol has reportedly said he has not read the editorial and doesn’t intend to.
Of course, the Twitterverse has. Here are a few of their responses.
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