The strange case of George Santos illustrates a remarkable paradox in regard to America’s current problem with antisemitism. The far-right Republican congressman-elect from New York has recently been outed by numerous media outlets as a pathological liar about everything from his ancestry to his finances. These lies include Santos’ false claim that he is Jewish. The paradox is this: On the one hand, antisemitism is on the rise across the political spectrum. On the other, people desperately want to appropriate Jewish identity to serve their own ends, which is antisemitic in and of itself. Advertisement Indeed, if there is any...