Jewish Democrats have rebuked President Trump’s claim that Jews who vote against him are disloyal, with one senator accusing him of “encouraging antisemites throughout the country and world”.

The President has come under fire in recent days after appearing to draw on an antisemitic trope of Jewish "dual loyalty" to Israel while addressing journalists in the Oval Office.

Speaking about Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two congresswomen who were denied entry into Israel, President Trump said that Jewish Americans who vote Democrat show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty”.

He later clarified his remarks, saying that those who vote Democrat were “being very disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel”.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, the most senior Democrat in the upper chamber, said the President had used a trope “that’s been used against the Jewish people for centuries”.

Senator Schumer added: “To my fellow American Jews ... when he uses a trope that's been used against the Jewish people for centuries with dire consequences he is encouraging -- wittingly or unwittingly -- antisemites throughout the country and world. Enough."

Congresswoman Elaine Luria, who represents Virginia’s second district, added that the President had helped “create an antisemitic environment”.

She said: "As a Jewish American, I am dismayed that the President is attacking millions in the American Jewish community as unintelligent and disloyal.”

Congressman Andy Levin told CNN that President Trump was at “the centre of a maelstrom of white supremacy and hate crimes in this country”, accusing him of being “a danger to Jewish people in this country”.