Article snippet: MORE has adopted a curious strategy for courting Jewish Democrats to the Republican side: He's attacking them. Over the past 48 hours, Trump has suggested Jewish Americans are ill informed on policy for siding overwhelmingly with Democrats and “disloyal” to Israel for opposing his presidency. "In my opinion, if you vote for a Democrat you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people and you're being very disloyal to Israel,” he said Wednesday at the White House, amplifying similar remarks he made a day earlier. “And only weak people would say anything other than that.” Yet prominent Jewish Democrats say Trump’s criticism of the very bloc he’s seeking to woo — and his invocation of anti-Semitic tropes as part of that message — will only alienate Jewish voters heading into 2020. “He's totally blown away that all his pandering to the hard right of American Jewish politics on Israel is not winning him any support among American Jews. In fact, it's backfiring,” Joel Rubin, a deputy assistant secretary of State during the Obama administration, said Wednesday by phone. “His broader social agenda and economic agenda and world view is never popular [among Jewish Americans] to begin with,” Rubin added, citing abortion rights and steps to tackle income inequality as two such issues. “But now he's just lashing out because he thinks that he's providing gifts and he should get rewards.” Trump has fought throughout his presidency to position himself as a champion of Israel, siding s... Link to the full article to read more