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Source: https://www.thejc.com/opinion/is-america-still-good-for-the-jews-ae6zuwk5
Is America Still Good for the Jews?
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Stephen Daisley - Just ten or twenty years ago, the U.S. was the most philosemitic nation on Earth with the exception of Israel. The Constitution guaranteed religious pluralism and the culture was one in which Jews flourished in every conceivable profession and civic field. Support for Israel was firmly bipartisan. By the dawn of the 21st century, antisemitism had been all but expelled from the mainstream. A nation founded on liberalism and Protestant ethics is one primed to feel not just sympathy but solidarity with God's chosen people. Jews found a home in America because it was their God who built the house. The Jews cannot be written out of America's story because their tradition is its co-author.