America’s Central Promise Broken by Antisemitism Run Amok

George Washington, in his inspired and defining 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, assured the “Children of the Stock of Abraham,” now also citizens of this new nation, that they should expect the enjoyment of “the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.” Some 234 years later, the cover of the February, 2024, issue of Commentary, America’s premier journal of Jewish thought, addresses what many “other Inhabitants” are foisting upon American Jews, and carries the solitary headline: “They’re Coming After Us.” The nones have been replaced by the many, and they are making Americans very afraid.