1. Let's talk about how the Trump administration is trying to erase the Jewish dimensions of a Jewish tragedy. The technical term is "de-Judaization" -- fake universalism in the service of suppressing a particular identity.
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12. A more specific answer is timing and politics. We're a week out from the mid-terms. Talking about anti-Semitism doesn't help the GOP and could (given stoking of Soros conspiracy theories) hurt them. There voters are evangelicals. Make it about anti-religiosity.
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13. I think it's really important for reasons to go beyond partisan politics to resist the erasure the Trump administration is engaged in. That resistance has to also oppose the tendency towards a facile ecumenicalism from some non-Trump people.
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14. The proper understanding of the Tree of Life massacre is that it a Jewish event: fuelled by the particular anti-Semitism that scapegoats Jews for social unrest. We should oppose all forms of bigotry but can't fight anti-Semitism unless we name it as such.
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actually it's politics. They don't want to make the anti-semitic thing bigger and they want to continue to keep their anti-semitic base with them so... this
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The benign explanation fails due to the context and history of the administration’s rhetoric on these points. You mentioned the Holocaust Remembrance Day, but there is more. Remember Sean Spicer and Holocaust Centers and Hitler didn’t gas his own people? He didn’t get fired.
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This is still antisemitic tho
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My 7th grade teacher described Anne Frank as a "good Christian". When I objected, she explained that she needed a way to describe her fundamental goodness that the rest of the class would understand.



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WHAT. THE. FUCK. When did this happen?
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