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In response to questioning about the difference between his plan to forcibly register all Muslim Americans as such and Nazi Germany forcing Jews to register, billionaire GOP presidential candidate said “You tell me.”

Such blatantly racist rhetoric is ruining the political process, and worse yet, Trump is gaining supporters. But the specifically anti-Muslim sentiment of the GOP candidate sounds awfully similar to the Israeli right-wing inciting against Palestinians. It sounds similar to ultra-nationalist European politicians calling to close borders to refugees fleeing war and strife. And yes, it sounds similar to the Nazi era policies of forcing Jews to identify as such and wear a yellow star arm band.

But Trump’s egregious language is not wholly different from the rhetoric used by Knesset politicians. For example, current Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked stated the following during the 2015 Knesset election:

“What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy?... They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”

Or when Tzipi Hotovely, the current deputy foreign minister said of the non-Jews in Israel in 2011, “[There are] 92,000 families in Israel in which one of the partners is not Jewish - we have a real problem that we have to deal with."

These Israeli politicians are obscene, yes, but also very good at inciting against Muslims--they could teach Trump a few things.

The Jewish Daily Forward found that while many mainstream Jews in the US have called out Donald Trump on his hate-speech, the Jewish Communal Fund is actively sending contributions to known anti-Muslim bigot Pamela Geller as well as The Clarion Fund.

According to their website, the “Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), established in 1972, is one of the largest Jewish donor advised funds (DAFs) in the country, managing $1.4 billion in charitable assets for 3,200 funds. For over 40 years, leading Jewish philanthropists have partnered with JCF to facilitate their charitable giving while receiving the highest caliber of personalized service.”

The problem is the philanthropic nature of this fund is outweighed by its pro-Israel lean. It is supposed to be discerning about who it gives money to, but if it truly was, instead of just lined up with Israel interests, the the JCF would never fund Pamela Geller. The Southern Poverty Law Center said this about Geller:

Pamela Geller is the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She’s relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims, such as that President Obama is the “love child” of Malcolm X. She makes no pretense of being learned in Islamic studies, leaving the argumentative heavy lifting to her Stop Islamization of America partner Robert Spencer. Geller has mingled comfortably with European racists and fascists, spoken favorably of South African racists, defended Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps. She has taken a strong pro-Israel stance to the point of being sharply critical of Jewish liberals.”

It would be a positive step if she did not represent the mainstream American Jewish community, just as if inciting politicians Tzipi Hotovely and Ayelet Shaked did not represent the mainstream Israeli Jewish community. But, as the evidence shows, they do represent the mainstream, perhaps more than anyone else.