When President Donald Trump asserts that the US “needs” Greenland, commentators scramble to decode his geopolitical calculus. They analyze the variables: rare earth minerals, Arctic shipping lanes, competition with Russia and China, and the role of climate change in redrawing the polar map.
Yet there is another aspect of Greenland worth noting, one unrelated to strategic value – it has virtually no antisemitism. This places the island in remarkable isolation. Greenland stands as perhaps the only place in the European sphere with essentially no history of anti-Jewish sentiment.
