(JTA) — WASHINGTON – April 25, 2019, marked an extraordinary moment in American Jewish history: It was the first time a presidential candidate framed his decision to run around fighting antisemitism.
The candidate was Joe Biden.
At first, Biden hadn’t seemed eager to run for president in 2020. But that changed when Neo-Nazis marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, shouting slogans that Biden’s father taught him represented the worst of human nature.
Worse, Trump could not bring himself to unequivocally condemn the marchers and the deadly rally, claiming that among them were “very f...
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