The Zionist Organization of America has condemned former President Donald Trump’s meeting with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at the Mar-a-Lago mansion just weeks after it honored the former president for his support of Israel and Jews.
The organization has released a statement saying it «deplores» Trump’s meeting with Fuentes and reminds the former president of his words during a 2019 speech in which he encouraged not to ignore «the vile poison of anti-Semitism» and those who «spread its poisonous creed.»
In this regard, the American Zionist collective has called on Trump to «live up to his own words» and condemn «in the strongest terms» both the rapper Kanye West — also present at the meeting — and Fuentes for his anti-Semitic positions.
«His dining with Jew-haters helps legitimize and generalize anti-Semitism and should be condemned by all,» the Zionist Organization of America has moved, as reported by The Hill.
Trump received earlier this month the Theodor Herzl Gold Medal in recognition of his support for Israel and Jews, and the organization even praised him as «the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House».
On Tuesday last week, Trump held a private dinner at his lavish Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, attended not only by Fuentes, but also by rapper Kanye West, who was recently involved in a new controversy, this time for anti-Semitic comments.
Fuentes is a well-known white supremacist who has been banned from several social media platforms for his racist rhetoric. In turn, he has also endorsed Donald Trump’s theories on electoral fraud and could be seen on the Capitol grounds during that January 6, 2021 in which a mob tried to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Trump himself acknowledged on his social network -Truth Social– the celebration of that dinner, although he said it was somewhat «unexpected», since Kanye West appeared with three of his friends, «of whom he knew nothing», and has even stated that he «did not know» Fuentes.
