US Muslim and Jewish advocacy groups criticised president Donald Trump on Wednesday for referring to the top Senate Democrat, Senator Chuck Schumer, as a Palestinian, with the organisations saying the president used the term as a slur.
Trump, a Republican, was asked by reporters at the White House about US corporate tax rate policy during an Oval Office meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, and in response expressed displeasure with congressional Democrats not supporting his agenda.
“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,” Trump said.
Schumer is the highest-ranking elected US Jewish official and is not of Palestinian heritage.
“President Trump’s use of the term ‘Palestinian’ as a racial slur is offensive and beneath the dignity of his office,” said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Awad, who is of…
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