What is happening in the US is not what was happening from 1960 to 2020.

As I mentioned previously, I do look at the comments. I do so to see if there is something that I can learn and at times to see how the naysayers respond to my thoughts. As to the latter, there has been no shortage of responders who claim that there is no great antisemitism in the United States or that the Jews/Israel caused it, or that people like Tucker Carlson haven’t said anything unusual regarding Israel and American Jews. He just said that nobody in the US has been killed by Muslim terrorists "in the past 24 years," while the real number killed is over 100. He said that Israel is pushing a Muslim terror lie.

The United States has known antisemitism in the past. Harvard’s President Lowell set strict quotas for Jews to enter the college. There are many stories of Jews arriving from Europe and starting to work in New York, being told, “If you don’t come to work on Saturday, your Sabbath, don’t bother coming back to work on Sunday. You’re fired.” But the events of the past two years have less to do with not being invited to a given country club and more to do with threats and physical harassment and assaults. Some on the right claim that the Jews are to blame. When people claim that Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin is “Israel First," I honestly don’t know what they mean. Ben Shapiro’s recent speeches focused on the US, the conservative movement and MAGA. He did not mention Israel. He didn’t ask the US government to do special favors for the Jewish state. Donald Trump has chosen to be a steadfast friend of the only democracy in the Middle East. So the “Israel First” canard is the same as “I don’t like Zionists--that doesn’t........

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