My dad and his parents left Forchheim, Germany, when he was 13 years old. They fled to Australia, while others in their community went wherever they could go to get away from the Nazi killing machine. A friend of my father was a bit older and moved to the U.S. At the end of the war, he was sent back as a soldier to Forchheim to identify Nazis. He thus sent their teacher to prison and saved the local doctor, who by law was required to wear SS black. In the town after the war, there was a serious security incident. A dedicated Nazi youth strung wire across a street, and when a U.S. jeep passed through, the driver was decapitated. Soldiers saw the kid running and shot him. As he was being prepped for surgery to remove a bullet, he begged over and over not to be given any American blood, as it might contain Jewish blood. This was his biggest fear: that some Jew and his blood might save his life.

As antisemitism is a visceral and thus irrational hatred of Jews, it is no surprise when people act like nuts in regards to their dislike or outright hatred of Jews. In the past few decades, Democratic administrations liked to claim that the biggest terror threats came from the Right. Even as Muslim terrorists were blowing up, shooting, and stabbing from sea to shining sea, each year the intelligence apparatus told us that Joey and Billy Bob up in the hills were the real threat to the Republic. And it was the same with antisemitism. Though blacks, Muslims, and leftists were behind most attacks against Jews in the U.S. (and attacks against Jews are the majority of racially-motivated attacks in the country), the FBI and others claimed that some right-wing paramilitary group with eight guys was the real threat. They didn’t want to admit that the problems of Muslim terror and Jew hatred did not end with the Twin Towers, so they........

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