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February 26, 2018

What Jews Got Wrong about Billy Graham

A profound distrust of Christian conservatives is so pervasive among liberal American Jews as to be unremarkable.

More than a few obituaries of the evangelical preacher Billy Graham, who died last week at the age of ninety-nine, mentioned the bluntly anti-Semitic statements he made while in conversation with Richard Nixon, preserved on the president’s infamous tapes. To Jonathan Tobin, these comments should not overshadow Graham’s positive attitude toward the Jewish people and the Jewish state:

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