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Sobering historic fact: The anti-communist McCarran-Walter Act that Rubio is using to deport students in the name of antisemitism was written by an antisemite, and in practice, used to block European Jews from entering the US. Such tools can be used on any immigrant group for any reason.
Using antisemitism as an excuse for the right to pursue long-held grudges against higher education and immigrants puts Jewish people, unwillingly, at the center of an authoritarian agenda. Yair Rosenberg in The Atlantic wrote an article “Trump’s Jewish Cover Story”: Donald Trump and his allies have been using “anti-Semitism” as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support…But the lesson most American Jews have drawn from their history as a persecuted people is that narrow nationalisms never end well for those who are different, because no matter their patriotism or contribution to the collective, their difference will always make them suspect. Jews may be inside the circle of concern today, but that circle is always shrinking, and Jews will ultimately not determine who it includes.
April 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM