When someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse American Jews of undermining the U.S. and being foreign implants in service of Israel, we waste no time in condemning that language as anti-Semitic. But what do we do when someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse other Americans of undermining the U.S. and being foreign implants, and does so allegedly in service of Israel? Welcome to being an American Jew in the Trump era, where a president who is literally hailed by the Israeli government as the greatest philo-Semite since ancient Persia’s King Cyrus the Great is undermining Israel in ways that will be nearly impossible to reverse and using American Jews as his weapon of choice.


You can call President Trump’s tweets on Sunday and Monday – in which he said that a group of Congresswomen should “go back” to the countries from which they came and then attempted to justify his position because they “hate Israel” – anything you like, and certainly racist, xenophobic, cretinous, and puerile are good places to start. But add to that list anti-Israel, because there is no question that Trump’s tweets are the best example yet of why he presents such a singular danger to Israel and its supporters.

https://forward.com/opinion/427703/t...ate=07/16/2019