Friday, April 25, 2025

‘Boomerang in a Very Bad Way’: How Trump’s Antisemitism Push Could Backfire

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/22/trump-antisemitism-backfire-00301548

“By directly linking billions of dollars of federal research funding to ostensibly combating antisemitism, I think it plays very much into long-standing tropes about Jews wielding financial leverage to pursue their so-called interests,” he said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine.

Pascal said the problem of antisemitism in America is very real — on campus and off — but argued Trump’s approach was not the solution in the long run.

“We need to be very vigilant about the erosion of the rule of law and our civil liberties,” Pascal said, “because that is the best defense against antisemitism, not the protection of the strongmen.”

1 comment :

  1. Like the old joke about the two guys standing in line in the concentration camp and the German officer was yelling at them so one guy makes like he's going to yell back and his buddy say "Sha! Shtill! You don't want to get them mad at us,."
    Only Jews respond to attempts to defend them with "But you'll upset our enemies!"

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