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September 18, 2017

How Israeli and American Jews See Past Each Other When It Comes to Anti-Semitism

The best thing Israel can offer in response to anti-Semitism is its existence.

Last week, a bit of controversy erupted over an anti-Semitic cartoon posted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s adult son on Twitter; apparently, he had misread it as mocking George Soros’s person rather than using the financier as a stand-in for an international Jewish conspiracy. Jewish reactions to the incident, as Shmuel Rosner writes, bring into sharp contrast the divergent perceptions of anti-Semitism in Israel and the United States:

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