Trump's Jewish comments play on anti-Semitism in culture, film and art
by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
Aug 22, 2019
3 minutes
Nazi caricatures of Jews as conniving, scurrilous schemers - a people of hooked noses and sinister motives - infused the art, literature, film and propaganda that led to the Holocaust. Jews had been stereotyped for centuries across Europe as devious and untrustworthy. They hoarded money, killed Jesus, betrayed the French, brought vermin and disease.
President Trump's comments Wednesday that Jews who voted for Democrats would be "very disloyal" to Israel were certainly not
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