Donald Trump scraps planned trip to Israel

Although Trump’s name was not specifically mentioned, the title of Ali’s press statement read: “Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States”.

Trump told Fox News Thursday that he wasn’t canceling the trip outright: “All I’m doing is postponing it, and I think that was the better alternative”.

In the days since Trump questioned Obama’s statement that Muslims were among America’s sporting heroes, people on the Internet responded by compiling lists of Muslim athletes.

“I also did it because I’m in the midst of a very powerful campaign that’s going very well and it (the trip) was not that easy to do”, Trump added. Among all likely general-election voters, including Democrats and independents, 18% say it makes them more likely to back Trump, while 33% say less likely and 44% say it has no impact.

The Israeli daily Haaretz quoted unnamed officials from the Prime Minister’s Office as saying they were not involved in any way in the cancellation of Trump’s visit. “They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so brilliant and so fantastic'”.

The petition to ban Donald Trump from the United Kingdom has become the most popular on the Government’s website with nearly 500,000 people signing up online.

But Joe Lhota, the Republican Party’s candidate for mayor in 2013, ignited the “dump Trump” discussion by urging Malpass to boot The Donald from the GOP.

The International Organisation for Migration responded to Trump’s comments by saying any discrimination based on religion went against all international accords on dealing with refugees.

Mr Netanyahu is ideologically very close to the Republicans and is often referred to by Israeli commentators as the Republican representative for Jerusalem.

Marc Zell, the co-chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel, said that there had been no pressure from the organization, which represents Republican expatriates living in Israel, for Trump not to come.

“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world”, said Ali.