Dozens of Israeli lawmakers had called for Netanyahu to cancel the December 28 meeting with Trump.
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The visit to Netanyahu, scheduled two weeks ago, would have been the first foreign trip of his campaign.
Almost six in 10 Americans oppose Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States, but Republicans are evenly divided, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
But while Trump’s comments-and Trump himself-have been condemned, a visit to Israel is akin to a rite of passage for any serious presidential candidate.
Hillary Clinton didn’t hold back when Seth Meyers brought up Donald Trump on Thursday.
The GOP front-runner has come under fire from all fronts for his controversial proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the USA and idea that came on the heels of last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Painting Trump as a “carnival barker” with “fake hair” whose campaign belonged in the “dustbin of history”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump’s plan should disqualify him from office.
The billionaire real estate magnate now leads Republican polls by double digit margins over his nearest rivals.
Mr Trump’s comment has prompted outrage from worldwide media and governments but recent polling data shows that more Republicans support the prospective presidential nomineee than ever.
Trump insisted on Thursday, however, such a move was “highly unlikely”.
After every terrorist attack, one of the most common refrains is to ask Muslim leaders to voice their opposition to this kind of violence.
“I can’t make them up”, Trump said on Fox News. But I didn’t want to put him under pressure, No. 1.
Which means, if you apply that core support to Trump’s support in the polls, that 17.5 percent of all of the Republicans surveyed by the Times and CBS say they are going to vote for Donald Trump no matter what. It’s a standard that meets the basic definition of bigotry – the implication being that Muslims are suspected of supporting terrorism until they say otherwise, which is quite literally blaming an entire group for the actions of a few.
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Mr Trump tweeted: “Thank you to respected columnist Katie Hopkins of Daily Mail.com for her powerful writing on the U.K.’s Muslim problems”.
