In discussions of antisemitism, leaders of American Jewish organizations seem unable to resist pivoting to defense of Israel. Appearing on MSNBC on January 27, on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt answered a question from host Nicolle Wallace about why a school library banning Art Spiegelman’s Maus is dangerous and in 73 seconds Greenblatt managed to segue from Holocaust to “anti-Semitism on the rise…” to– “ugly persons sort of calling Israel a Nazi state. These are awful comparisons that have no place in a decent conversation.” Advertisement So a discussion of American intolerance quickly became a message of...
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