The Trump administration wants you to know that it's just looking out for Jews. In recent weeks, the White House has cited anti-Semitism as the motivation for many of its controversial moves, whether deporting foreign students who allegedly engaged in pro-Hamas activism or threatening to pull millions of government dollars from Ivy League schools. 'SHALOM COLUMBIA,' quipped the White House's X account, after it canceled federal funding to the university over its 'failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment.' But this branding is profoundly misleading. In reality, 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. Take the detentions and deportations. A handful of high-profile cases purportedly pertain to the targets' anti-Semitic conduct. But most of them do not. In just the past month, the administration's immigration agents have...
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