Leaders the world over, from Canada to New Zealand, from Britain to Germany, expressed revulsion at President Donald Trump’s July 15 call for four Democratic congresswomen — three of them US-born — to return to the countries from which they came. Among other things, Trump demanded that they apologize to the people of Israel for saying the US internment facilities for illegal immigrants were like “concentration camps.”
Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, called Trump's tweets “racially offensive.” Fellow GOP lawmaker Mitt Romney described Trump’s comments as “destructive, demeaning and disunifying.” Jonathan Greenblatt (no relation to Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt), the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, accused Trump of “echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists and cynically using the Jewish people and the State of Israel as a shield to double down on his remarks.” He added that while the Anti-Defamation League has disagreed with these congresswomen on some issues, Trump’s cynical political use of the Jews and Israel must be condemned.
