“Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency within Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense ordering personnel to stop marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, along with other calendrical commemorations like MLK Day and Women’s History Month—an early sign of the Defense Secretary’s efforts to implement anti-DEI policies in the military.
The coincidence illustrates the grim contradiction at the heart of MAGA antisemitism: instrumentalizing Jewish safety as an authoritarian weapon with one hand, while the other systematically shreds the fabric of liberal pluralism, which has kept American Jews relatively safe. And in the week since, MAGA has moved quickly towards implementing its crusade against civil rights and dissent across campuses and communities…”
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Ben Lorber 
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