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Antisemitism on the ballot in California

If you have any doubt that antisemitism is a persistent problem in California and the U.S. as a whole, you need only consult the voter information guide for the upcoming primary election.

That’s where Don J. Grundmann, an independent candidate for governor, has written a crazy anti-Israel rant that is as sinister as it is bizarre. It’s in his “candidate statement,” page 24.

Grundmann claims, among other things, that conservative activist Charlie Kirk was “murdered by [a] shape-charged bomb Israel used”; that the World Trade Center was destroyed by Israeli art students, and that “Israel rules our conquered Republic.”

For good measure, Grundmann attacks Christians, too: “Talmudic ‘Judeo-Christian’ values don’t exist,” he declares.

It would be nice to think that Grundmann is........

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