![]() ![]() “You went to Harvard, and hold two graduate degrees,” Schwartz wrote in her letter. Kushner is Jewish and is married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who converted to Judaism. Schwartz has never met Kushner but said she hoped her letter would compel him as a Trump adviser to take action. “It was a personal issue,” Schwartz, an entertainment writer, told CNN’s “New Day.” “I responded immediately because I saw it as an anti-Semitic issue.” Observer writer urges owner – and Trump son-in-law – to condemn anti-Semitism The presumptive GOP presidential nominee set off a firestorm last weekend by tweeting a graphic of Hillary Clinton that featured a six-point star evoking the Star of David and a pile of cash with the words “most corrupt candidate ever.” The letter was posted Tuesday on the Observer’s website. Schwartz sat down Wednesday with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota to explain why she addressed the issue to Kushner, whose publishing company owns the Observer. I have personally seen him embrace people of all racial and religious backgrounds, at his companies and in his personal life,” Kushner wrote. His support has been unwavering and from the heart. “The fact is that my father in law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife. A recent New York Times profile described him in its headline as the candidate’s “quiet fixer.” As the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign has progressed, Kushner’s influence within its often muddled hierarchy has grown. The 35-year-old publisher has been married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who converted to Judaism before their wedding, since 2009. “The difference between me and the journalists and Twitter throngs who find it so convenient to dismiss my father in law is simple. “I go into these details, which I have never discussed, because it’s important to me that people understand where I’m coming from when I report that I know the difference between actual, dangerous intolerance versus these labels that get tossed around in an effort to score political points,” he wrote. Kushner wrote of his grandmother’s escape from the Holocaust, and how she met his grandfather – who’d lived in a hole he’d dug in the woods to hide from Nazis for three years. “What do we call the people who won’t hire minorities or beat others up for their religion?” “If even the slightest infraction against what the speech police have deemed correct speech is instantly shouted down with taunts of ‘racist’ then what is left to condemn the actual racists?” he wrote. “In my opinion, accusations like ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semite’ are being thrown around with a carelessness that risks rendering these words meaningless,” Kushner wrote. ![]()
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