The Anti-Semitism of Donald Trump's Twitter Mob

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Donald Trump's candidacy isn't just emboldening ugly expressions of racism and sexism.

NYTimes reporter @jonathanweisman is retweeting antisemitic tweets from Trump supporters and trolls. It’s ugly. We’ve seen it for a while.
— SPLC (@splcenter) May 19, 2016

What spurred all the anti-Semitic hate toward Weisman from Trump's Twitter mob? Weisman simply tweeted out a piece called, "This is how fascism comes to America."

He's hardly the first person to experience this facet of the Rise of Trump.

Tags: 2016

Eli Sanders

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.

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