ISRAEL HAYOM
Trump, Clinton, Sanders and the anti-Semites
by Richard Baehr
June 6, 2016

In the past few weeks, there have been a series of stories by Jewish writers about ‎what happened to them when they seemingly unleashed the fury of right-wing anti-‎Semites online by writing something deemed unfriendly toward or critical of ‎Donald Trump, or in one case, his wife, Melania. The toxic response from the angry ‎internet/social media mob, now commonly described as part of the alt-right ‎‎(alternative right) movement, has seemed to confirm what writers on the Left have ‎believed for a long time: that while the Left may be critical of Israel, or its settlement ‎policy, or of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, these criticisms reflected nothing ‎more than policy differences. If you want to look for anti-Semites, they are on the Right, not the Left. READ MORE