Donald Trump says anti-Semitic immigrants will be barred under his plan
Donald Trump said he would test would-be immigrants for anti-Semitic beliefs and that Israel would be a key ally in defeating radical Islam.
Speaking Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, the Republican presidential nominee outlined national security policies that included “extreme vetting” for would-be immigrants, including for those who would reject what he described as American values of tolerance.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people,” Trump said.
Explaining why he favored such a policy, he cited the French experience as an example.
“Beyond terrorism, as we have seen in France, foreign populations have brought their anti-Semitic attitudes with them,” he said.
It’s not clear which “foreign populations” he was referring to, although from the broader context of his comments, targeting “radical Islam,” it appears he was speaking of Muslims from North Africa. Anti-Semitism existed and at times thrived in France for centuries before its recent waves of immigrants, although recent high-profile attacks on Jews have been carried out by French Muslim extremists.
Trump also said Israel would be key in an alliance to face down the spread of radical Islam.
“As president, I will call for an international conference focused on this goal,” he said. “We will work side by side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally, Israel.”
Much of Trump’s targeting of would-be immigrants focused on attributes he has associated with Islam.
“In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law,” he said, referring to the Muslim religious canon.
The Anti-Defamation League immediately took to Twitter to express concerns about Trump’s reiterated call to ban Muslim entry and entry from countries subject to violence.
“Refugees from Syria, Iraq, etc. are fleeing the same terror we fear,” the ADL said. “Suspending immigration would only trap those who need refuge most.”
Also speaking out was HIAS, the lead Jewish group advocating for immigrants and refugees.
“For the American Jewish community, the thought of barring a refugee family because of their religion or home country is simply unpalatable,” Melanie Nezer, the group’s vice president, said in a statement.
Trump dedicated a chunk of his speech to decrying what he described as a decline in American security under President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee who was secretary of state in Obama’s first term. He referred to the nuclear rollback for sanctions relief deal with Iran.
“The nuclear deal puts Iran, the No. 1 state sponsor of radical Islamic terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons,” he said. “In short, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East and put the nation of Iran – which chants
‘Death to America’ – in a dominant position.”
In an almost simultaneous appearance with Clinton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden also invoked Israel in attacking Trump’s national security policies.
Biden noted Trump’s claim last week that Obama had founded ISIS, the Islamic State terrorist group. Trump doubled down on the claim for days before claiming he was being sarcastic.
“The leader of Hezbollah, a direct threat to our ally Israel, repeated that claim,” Biden said.
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As the characters sing, they also pray that the gods (humans) will choose them and take them out the store’s doors into the Great Beyond.</p>
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“Every aisle thinks something different … ” the lyrics go, “Everyone else is f—ing stupid, except for those who think like me.” As the grocery products sing from their respective aisles, they display their different flavors and countries of origin. For instance, the sauerkraut, as it imagines what it will do in the great beyond, sings, “We will exterminate the juice.”</p>
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“We realized that grocery stores are divided into ethnic types, which lent itself to representing different faiths and ethnicities and belief systems,” Shaffir said. “After that, it was a natural progression” for the theology and faith-based content, he said.</p>
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A few characters begin as one-off racial or ethnic stereotypes but go deeper — exploring issues of religious conflict and racism. Central among these issues is the role of native peoples in relationship to those who came to their lands. The Native American Chief Firewater (Bill Hader), who lives among the nonperishables, is a hinge for the story’s action — and, we discover, the creator of the morning song and a forger of the very belief systems that the groceries hold dear. Grits (Craig Robinson) represents the anger of having been enslaved by the Crackers. And ethnic foods Sammy Bagel Jr. (Edward Norton, channeling Woody Allen) and Kareem-Abdul Lavash (David Krumholtz, who played Lavash at table reads over the course of seven years of production) argue over the occupation of shelf space. (Hummus sits, fairly peacefully, between them.)</p>
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“Trying to write this, we wanted to make sure we were presenting both sides of the argument,” Shaffir said. “Especially the Middle East conflict, we tried to present both sides of the argument, and that was our goal and I think we did that.” </p>
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“We realized we were treading on potentially offensive waters,” Hunter said. “But we were ‘equal opportunity’ about it, and touch on as many different things as possible. But we were conscious about making the overall message one of tolerance and acceptance.”</p>
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The basic concept to make an R-rated, Pixar-style movie was Rogen’s and Hill’s, Shaffir said — he and Hunter came on board in 2008 — “we got in a room and talked about story, and it all came together.”</p>
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Although Rogen and Goldberg are well-known Hollywood names, it wasn’t easy to get the film made, the writers told the Journal.</p>
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“None of the studios were biting, both because of the risky controversial subject matter, and there hadn’t been an R-rated CGI animated movie before,” Hunter said. There was “no financial model in place, and they were a little scared.” Then Megan Ellison from Annapurna Pictures read it, “loved the script and took a huge gamble,” Hunter said. Ellison persuaded Sony to co-produce, and the film was in motion.</p>
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Because animation takes so long to produce, Shaffir said, “we were writing and revising up until 10 months ago — the process was very lengthy.” The long process, however, meant that “we had the opportunity to storyboard it and see what it looked like,” Shaffir said.</p>
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Shaffir and Hunter have been writing together since 2002. Hunter knew Rogen and Goldberg from Vancouver; Shaffir had met Rogen in 1998 in Israel, on what he described as a “Birthright-style” trip for alumni of Habonim Dror (Jewish labor Zionist) summer camps. Shaffir later met Goldberg at McGill University in Montreal. </p>
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Rogen, Goldberg, Shaffir and Hunter aren’t known for particularly child-friendly content to begin with, and “Sausage Party” kicks the language and graphic content up a notch, but the packaging — including a series of ubiquitous billboard ads all around Los Angeles — still has some kids clamoring to see the film. Pico-Robertson area children have undoubtedly seen the sign depicting the “deformed” sausage Barry, with text that reads “Mazal tov!”</p>
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Hunter said he’d never seen a film advertised with so many “warnings and banners all over it,” affirming that “we made a movie that is not for kids.” He noted that he has already heard stories that, whether by accident or intentionally, some parents are nevertheless bringing kids. </p>
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“Hopefully, those parents can figure out a way to explain it their kids,” said Shaffir, a father of two small children.</p>
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