Nadene Goldfoot
The population of Puerto Rico is estimated to be 3,242,204 people in 2024. This makes up 0.04% of the world's population, and Puerto Rico ranks 135th in the world for population. It is a part of the United States. organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands.
Tony Hinchcliffe, calling himself a comic, who was entertaining Trump followers at his rally, had the audacity to call Puerto Rico a garbage island ! He has insulted all Puerto Ricans by doing so. Speaking before the Republican presidential candidate at a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, comedian and podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe added that Latinos "love making babies" and that they do not "pull out," comments that leaned into a racist trope that Latinos are preoccupied with childbearing and averse to birth control."There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," Hinchcliffe said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico."
THE VIEW ladies have a Puerto Rican among them. The program today talked about how terrible this was to their heritage. They even mentioned Black people that were included in the anti-Latino comment, but they neglected to comment the blatant anti-Semitism that this guy spewed out which was caught by an inquisitive Jewish viewer.
Hostin was born on October 20, 1968, in New York City to a Puerto Rican mother, Rosa Beza, and an African American father, William Cummings. Her maternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Rhetoric from Binghamton University and a Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School.
Asunción "Sunny" Cummings Hostin (/ˈhɒstɪn/; born October 20, 1968) is an American lawyer, journalist, author, and television host. Hostin is co-host on ABC's morning talk show The View, for which she received nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as the Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst for ABC News. She was also the host and executive producer of Investigation Discovery's true crime series Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin.
What is this? Are people so used to accepting anti-Semitic remarks that they neglect to react when they hear this? Watch out Latinos, it may happen to you next.
And that reminds me. There are, of course, Jewish Puerto Ricans amongst us. Geraldo Rivera is one of them. Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, the son of Lillian (née Friedman; 1924–2018) and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (1915–1987), a restaurant worker and taxicab driver respectively. He is of Galician ancestry through his father, who was from Puerto Rico. His mother was Ashkenazi Jewish, while his father was Roman Catholic. Rivera was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a bar mitzvah ceremony.
Geraldo Rivera (born Geraldo Riviera; July 4, 1943) is an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator who worked at the Fox News Channel from 2001 to 2023. Rivera is a common family name in Puerto Rico, which received a significant population of colonists from Galicia, Spain, in the 16th century. The name Rivera is also very common among Sephardic Jews. He is also related to the Lebovitzes of Brooklyn.
The Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century with the arrival of the anusim (variously called conversos, Crypto-Jews, Secret Jews or marranos) who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. An open Jewish community did not flourish in the colony because Judaism was prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition. However, many migrated to mountainous parts of the island, far from the central power of San Juan, and continued to self-identify as Jews and practice Crypto-Judaism, or hidden Jews. Imagine not being able to practice Judaism by lighting candles on a Friday night, something they had to do in secret, or having people intently watching if they ever ate pork or why they didn't, and if they did they went to the religious police to turn them in, practicing something against the law...They spoke Ladino, a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew, just like Ashkenazi Jews spoke Yiddish, a mixture of German and Hebrew. Jews were killed if they had tried to hide the fact that they were Jewish and had been forced to convert. They were often burned at the stake to death.
The first large group of Jews to settle in Puerto Rico were refugees fleeing German–occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The second influx came in the 1950s, when thousands of Cuban Jews (most of Eastern-European descent) fled after Fidel Castro came to power. The majority immigrated to Miami, Florida, but a sizable portion chose to establish and integrate themselves on the neighboring island because of Puerto Rico's cultural, linguistic, racial, and historic similarities to Cuba.
“I despise comparisons to Nazis and the Holocaust but truly felt shades of 1939 watching clips from today: crowds at MSG cheering the most insane and racist and unpatriotic bullshit under the banner of ‘America First,’” tweeted the Jewish comedian Alex Edelman, who has recently canvassed for Harris. It has often been described as such by others. Anti-Semitism is at such a height; just look at this rally. Alex has had a different environment. Edelman was born in Boston to Cheryl, a real estate lawyer, and Elazer R. Edelman, a biomedical engineer, cardiologist, and professor. He has two brothers, Austin, and Israeli Olympian Adam Edelman. He was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. He began performing stand-up at age 15. He attended and graduated from Maimonides School in Brookline, a modern Orthodox Jewish day school. A baseball fan, he has worked for the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers.
Edelman grew up in a modern Orthodox Jewish family and, following high school, spent a year in a yeshiva in Jerusalem. During his time there, he helped to establish the city's first comedy club, Off the Wall Comedy. In 2008, he moved to New York City to study English at New York University and graduated in 2012. A few years ago, the comedian Alex Edelman decided on a whim to show up uninvited to a casual meeting of white nationalists at an apartment in New York City, and pose as one of them. Why? He was curious. He wanted to see what it would be like to be on the inside of a gathering that would never have knowingly included him, given that he is Jewish. The events of that night became fodder for his one-man show Just for Us, which has toured across the United States and overseas in recent years, and opens on Broadway tonight.
Jewish Trump supporters disagree: Far from being a Nazi-style gathering, they say, the rally boasted Jews in the stands and onstage in the country’s most Jewish city. Speakers throughout the night pledged to defend Israel. Orthodox Jews sang Hasidic songs as they waited to get in. The conservative radio host Dave Rubin tweeted a picture of an Israeli flag in the crowd. Evidently they only watch Fox News. They block out all the facts making Trump impossible to accept as a President of the United States that everyone else not only notices but is frantic about, it's so bad. Trump, via his son-in-law, has helped Israel immensely, and Trump receives all the praise. It is Jerad Kushner, who has done all the work and has put his own love into the project that has helped Israel (See my article about it )
https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2024/10/looking-way-back-at-trumps-mitzvotim.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-view-hosts-unload-on-trash-trump-for-puerto-rican-hate/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Hostin
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