נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>While this is absolutely correct, the author fails to reach the conclusion that Trump's authoritarian bullshit wouldn't do this with either the left or the right if there wasn't already a built in mistrust of Jews independent of him and his dumb shit within their social, political, and ideological milieus.</p><p>"The consequences are serious. By making <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> the public face of a campaign to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/censor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censor</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a>, this approach invites backlash from both ends of the ideological spectrum. On the right, it feeds into age-old tropes about <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> control of media, academia or public discourse. On the left, it generates suspicion that Jewish advocacy is merely a cover for the suppression of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> voices.</p><p>The effect is to isolate Jews politically and socially − at the exact moment we are being told we are being “protected.”</p><p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/05/28/trump-harvard-antisemitism/83875926007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usatoday.com/story/opinion/voi</span><span class="invisible">ces/2025/05/28/trump-harvard-antisemitism/83875926007/</span></a></p>