WALL STREET JOURNAL
Why Trump’s Protection Leaves Jews Confused
by Ruth R. Wisse
December 22, 2019

Anti-Semi­tism is on the rise in the U.S., but the re­sponse from Amer­i­ca’s Jews has been con­fused. Don­ald Trump is the first pres­i­dent to con­front anti-Semi­tism by rec­og­niz­ing Jerusalem as Is­rael’s cap­i­tal and by ex­tend­ing civil-rights pro­tec­tion to Jew­ish col­lege stu­dents in the U.S. Yet some Jews and Jew­ish or­ga­ni­za­tions con­demn him as an anti-Semite and de­nounce his ini­tia­tives. One rea­son, per­versely, is the suc­cess of Holo­caust teach­ing. Amer­i­cans raised on this his­tory are so used to Nazi vil­lainy that they can­not imag­ine any other form of anti-Jew­ish pol­i­tics. READ MORE

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