Jonathan Tobin, the editor of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate), posted an article over the weekend entitled, “The Michigan Primary and the Normalization of Antisemitism” to which I take exception to his conclusions.

In it, based on Dr. Abdul El-Saed’s victory in last week’s Democratic Party’s US Senate primary, he posits that: “Democrats have given a person whose most important issue was demonizing Jewish participation in American politics a narrow plurality. By rallying around him and unifying behind his candidacy, as the defeated party establishment has already done, they are normalizing a hateful position against a segment of citizenry. They are declaring that politics driven by traditional tropes of antisemitism and money is not merely debatable, but a stand they can all get behind if it means winning a majority in the US Senate.”

There is no question that those who voted in the Michigan primary chose not only to accept the vilification of the six million American Jews as an acceptable political position but also agreed to make him their candidate of choice in the November election.  Yet these are two very different things.

For sure, the fact that normalizing the demeaning of a significant........

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