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Kushner targeted with hate campaign by American far-right

Anti-Defamation League issues a special report documenting the abuse

April 13, 2017 13:33
Kushner during a recent visit to Iraq
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Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser, has become such a target for antisemitic social media users that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has issued a special report documenting the abuse.

On Monday, on the eve of Passover, the New York-based ADL published a report recording the escalating invective on Twitter against Mr Kushner, an Orthodox Jew who married Mr Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, in 2009.

Most of the antisemitic tweets accused Mr Kushner — who has been made responsible for “sorting out” the Middle East — of manipulating the president and leading America into war for Israel’s benefit.

Many of the hate tweets come from far-right extremists such as David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, and far-right activist Richard Spencer. They used the hashtag “#firekushner” — although the ADL acknowledges that others who are not antisemitic but vehemently opposed to the Trump administration have used the same hashtag.