Sometimes it feels like every day brings yet another issue where Jews, Jewish history and antisemitism are at the forefront of American politics.
Partly this is due to the ease with which comments flow across social media. But it also is a rising problem of American politicians, actors, professors and commentators constantly making bad, insensitive and sometimes hateful comments against Jews or Jewish history.
The latest example is US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asserting that US border detention facilities are akin to "concentration camps." On Wednesday she refused to back down, claiming the "US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during WWII. It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it. These camps occur throughout history."
