Sebastian Gorka, a onetime adviser to Donald Trump, wore a medal from the Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group historically aligned with Nazism, to one of Trump's inaugural balls. Gorka was reportedly a member of the group, whose founder, the Hungarian autocrat Miklos Horthy, once said, "For all my life, I have been an anti-Semite."
Max Berger is a Jewish social justice activist who has long been deeply involved in Jewish communal life. He's the co-founder of IfNotNow, a group of American Jews devoted to ending Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, and recently joined Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign.
In a tweet this month, one of these men tarred the other as an anti-Semite. If you've been following the increasingly bizarre turn that American discussion of anti-Semitism has taken, you can probably guess which one.
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