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When Did It Become Acceptable to Be an Anti-Semite?
(Washington Post) Richard Cohen - When and how did it become acceptable to be an anti-Semite? When did it become okay to socialize with and even praise a Jew hater? I am referring to Louis Farrakhan, who spouts the most vile things about Jews yet retains the admiration of many including, notably, leaders of the Women's March. It is not Farrakhan's anti-Semitism that worries me. More worrisome is the casual acceptance of his anti-Semitism by others that makes him somehow unremarkable - the unstated agreement that Jews are all-powerful, all-controlling and somehow blocking black progress. This stands history on its head and mocks the 1964 deaths in Mississippi of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who were among the many Jews who volunteered during the civil rights movement.