You started to see a ton of this during the first trump administration; and it’s only accelerated since: politicians and media figures creating an idea that there was some grand conflict between Muslim and Jewish Americans when they are consistently allies who are far far from the primary source of…
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Joshua J. Friedman
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
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I infuriated my professors by arguing in my research papers that it was a clash not of civilizations, but of centuries.