Commenting on what Jewish Jessica Tarlov says as a co-host on Fox’s The Five might be labeled, “don’t sweat the small stuff.” But her using a popular national TV platform on April 8th to churn up an antisemitic blood libel warrants outrage. Tarlov, channeling the Nazi-era newspaper Der Stürmer, in the news show “A-Block,” accused the Israelis of manipulating President Trump dragging him into war.

When the camera pivoted to Tarlov she immediately proclaimed she identified the “lynch pin of the story.” She raced ahead to accuse the Israeli leader of hoodwinking resolute President Trump into taking America into war. She referred to a February 11th meeting in the White House’s situation room where Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu was present. Tarlov emphatically added, “Israel pitched them on this war.”

She had crossed a line into classical antisemitism.

Tarlov made this scurrilous charge choosing not to explore the daring rescue of downed American pilots, Iranian children chained around buildings as a shield, Iranian missiles flying to Israel and Arab states,........

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