Ed Cox, the chairman of New York State’s Republican Party, recently wrote an open letter to New York’s Jewish community expressing his “sadness as the Democratic Party … spirals into that ugliest and oldest hatred.”

I share his sadness — with the antisemitism growing within my party, and with the antisemitism coming from both the base and the highest levels of his own. Can a week pass without another presidential appointee exposed for a history of antisemitic or white-nationalist rhetoric; without the vice president of the United States trafficking in antisemitic conspiracy theories; without a right-wing podcaster spewing raw, unfiltered antisemitic hatred, his stature boosted by having been granted a seat at the president’s dinner table?

But where do these sorrows get us if all we do is point fingers at the other side? I cannot solve the Republican Party’s antisemitism problem. But I can acknowledge and........

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