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Kamala Harris Shrugs at Anti-Semitism
(Wall Street Journal) Gil Troy - A student at George Mason University complained last month that the allocation of U.S. funds to the Iron Dome, Israel's missile-defense system, "hurts my heart because it's an ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America." In response, America's vice president nodded and said, "Your truth should not be suppressed." Kamala Harris' response was alarming because she wasn't alarmed. Her answer proclaimed that hearing someone falsely accuse Israel and America of genocide is unremarkable. Harris is not anti-Semitic. She is not anti-Zionist, anti-Israel or anti-American. Her reaction is a weather vane, indicating where the conversation might be heading. Genocide is the mass murder of a people, yet the Palestinian population has quintupled since 1967. Libeling as guilty of genocide the people who endured the Nazis' genocide is absurd - just as is accusing America of genocide when the U.S. was responsible for ending the Nazi regime. The writer is a distinguished scholar of North American history at McGill University.