Over the past two weeks, almost 20 charities and organizations have canceled events they were planning to hold in the coming months at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's resort in Florida, following his remarks on the violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Yet one pro-Israeli organization has decided to swim against the tide: While everyone is getting out of Mar-a-Lago, The Truth About Israel called the resort and asked to book a gala event in February. The event will commemorate 45 years to the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. The speakers at the event will be former Israeli ambassador to Washington, Danny Ayalon, and three Republican members of Congress. [...]
Among the groups that canceled their events at Mar-a-Lago recently was American Friends of Magen David Adom, a charity supporting Israel's national emergency health services.
The group said in a press statement last week that the decision to move the event to another location was reached “after considerable deliberation,” without explaining what exactly prompted it. But the Palm Beach Post reported that the cancellation could be a result of Trump “crossing a red line” with his recent comments on the events in Charlottesville. The report quoted one philanthropist as saying “the tide has turned against Trump,” and that “when you get into the area of anti-Semitism, global anti-Semitism, it transcends all the other issues, like health care and immigration.”
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