Non-Jews should lead the fight against Jew hatred

Jews keep debating how to fight antisemitism. Yet, all Americans should confront this evil. Jew-hatred is not a Jewish disease – it’s a non-Jewish one.

Professor Gil Troy, an American presidential historian, is a senior fellow in Zionist thought at the JPPI, the Global Think Tank of the Jewish People, and, most recently, the co-author with Natan Sharansky of  "Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People,"  recently released in paperback.

Beyond violating American values, the bigots are lashing out at America’s most defining national symbols, from putting bloody hand prints on the White House gates to defacing Lincoln Memorial Plaza with "Free Gaza" grafitti. Why aren’t more Americans objecting?

It’s an old story. In targeting Jews, Jew-haters often attack liberal-democracy, Western values, America’s core identity, civility itself. The hooligans who menaced the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting applauded the Hamas bloodbath and endorsed genocide, chanting "End the Settler Zionist State."