JTA — Under fire over antisemitism within the Republican Party, US Vice President JD Vance wrote on Monday that “the single most significant thing you could do to eliminate anti-semitism” is reducing immigration to the United States.

Vance also laid out his attitude about criticism of Israel, posting on X: “I would say there’s a difference between not liking Israel (or disagreeing with a given Israeli policy) and anti-semitism.”

Vance made the comments on X while responding to a journalist who had shared an essay by the Jewish commentator Yair Rosenberg expressing concern about antisemitism among younger Americans.

Rosenberg had written in The Atlantic that “the research collectively suggests that America is becoming more anti-Semitic because its young people are becoming more anti-Semitic. This finding flies in the face of the folk wisdom that prejudice is the province of the old and will die out with them.

The quotation caused Vance to respond with a thread that represented some of his most direct and extensive comments on the topic since the Republican Party’s internal rift on antisemitism was thrust into the open following the September assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. Since then, some in the party have urged a confrontation with antisemitic sentiments that appear increasingly common among younger Republicans influenced by online personalities such as Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

But Vance, while saying he opposes antisemitism, has not heeded the calls, rejecting claims of surging Republican antisemitism........

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