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Trump
under
fire for
derogatory
remark
about
Palestinians
during
debate
with
Biden
By Walid
Kazam
tellususa.com
DETROIT
- Former
President
Donald
Trump
faced
criticism
from
human
rights
advocates
for his
comments
about
Palestinians,
immigrants,
and
Black
American
jobs
during
the
debate
with
President
Joe
Biden,
with
many
labeling
his
remarks
as
racist
or
offensive.
Although
Biden
and
Trump
exchanged
a few
words
about
the Gaza
war,
they did
not
engage
in a
meaningful
discussion
on
finding
a
solution
to end
the
conflict.
The war
has
claimed
38,000
lives in
Gaza and
triggered
a severe
humanitarian
crisis
marked
by
widespread
hunger.
The war
began
when
Palestinian
Hamas
militants
attacked
Israel
on Oct.
7,
killing
1,200
people
and
abducting
some 250
others,
according
to
Israeli
tallies.
"The
only one
who
wants
the war
to
continue
is
Hamas,"
Biden
said.
Trump
responded
by
saying
Biden
has
"become
like a
Palestinian,"
which
rights
advocates
said
came
across
as a
slur.
"Actually,
Israel
is the
one
(that
wants to
keep
going),
and you
should
let them
go and
let them
finish
the job.
He
(Biden)
doesn't
want to
do it.
He's
become
like a
Palestinian
but they
don't
like him
because
he's a
very bad
Palestinian.
He's a
weak
one,"
Trump
said.
During a
rally on
Friday,
Trump
once
again
utilized
the term
'Palestinian'
in a
similar
fashion,
this
time
suggesting
that
Democratic
Senate
Majority
Leader
Chuck
Schumer,
who is
Jewish,
belonged
to the
Palestinian
community.
"He's
become a
Palestinian
because
they
have a
couple
more
votes or
something,"
he
added.
The
Council
on
American
Islamic
Relations
advocacy
group
criticized
Biden
for his
statement
on
Netanyahu's
intentions
and
condemned
Trump's
remark
about
Palestinians
during
the
debate
as
racist.
"Former
President
Trump's
use of
'Palestinian'
as an
insult
was
racist.
President
Biden's
touting
of his
military
support
for the
Israeli
government's
genocide
in Gaza
was
callous,"
Corey
Saylor,
research
and
advocacy
director
at CAIR,
said in
a
statement.
Israel
denies
allegations
of
genocide.
"To
insinuate
that
being
Palestinian
is
somehow
a bad
thing,
as
former
President
Trump
did when
he
called
President
Biden
Palestinian,
reeks of
racism
and
anti-Arab
hatred,"
Paul
O'Brien,
executive
director
of
Amnesty
International
USA,
told
Reuters.
In the
wake of
the
recent
eruption
of
conflict
in the
Middle
East,
human
rights
advocates
have
documented
a rise
in
Islamophobia,
anti-Palestinian
bias,
and
antisemitism
in the
U.S. The
war in
Gaza and
Washington's
support
for
Israel
has also
led to
months
of
protests
across
the
United
States
calling
for an
end to
the
conflict.
Trump
received
backlash
for
referring
to
"Black
jobs"
and
"Hispanic
jobs"
when
discussing
immigration
and job
opportunities.
The
Trump
campaign
decided
against
providing
an
immediate
comment
in
response
to the
criticism.
Trump
claims
that
Biden's
inability
to
secure
the
southern
U.S.
border
has led
to
numerous
criminals,
making
immigration
a
pivotal
election
issue.
Studies
indicate
that
immigrants
are not
more
likely
to
commit
crimes
than
native-born
Americans.
"The
fact is
that his
(Biden's)
big kill
on the
Black
people
is the
millions
of
people
that
he's
allowed
to come
in
through
the
border,"
Trump
said
during
the
debate.
"They're
taking
Black
jobs,
and
they're
taking
Hispanic
jobs."
On X,
the
NAACP
wrote:
"What
precisely
constitutes
Black
and
Hispanic
Jobs!?!".
The
addition
was made
stating
that
there is
no such
thing as
a Black
Job.
O'Brien
from
Amnesty
International
told
Reuters
that
Trump's
immigration
remarks
were
based on
white
supremacy.
"It is
disheartening
that
false
narratives
grounded
in white
supremacy
and
racism
about
people
seeking
asylum
at the
border
and
immigrant
communities
in the
United
States
continue
to
permeate
our
national
discourse,"
he
added.
BlackPAC's
executive
director,
Adrianne
Shropshire,
called
out
Trump
for
spreading
false
information
and
expressed
disappointment
in
Biden's
insufficient
pushback
against
such
claims.
"That
there
are
specific
Black
jobs for
Black
people
that
immigrants
are
coming
to take.
Utter
nonsense,"
Shropshire
said.
Trump
has been
actively
trying
to
attract
Black
voters,
which is
evident
in his
visits
to
Detroit
and
Philadelphia.
Black
voters,
historically
a key
voting
bloc for
the
Democratic
Party,
have
shown
decreased
support
for
Biden
according
to
several
polls.
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