On a recent visit to Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan , I heard from someone who described the state’s US Senate race this year as a choice either against antisemitism or for democracy.
He meant that voting for Mike Rogers, the Republican, was also voting for US President Donald Trump and therefore voting against democracy. But a vote for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat, was a vote not just for a stridently anti-Israel candidate but for the normalisation of antisemitism that his candidacy has helped to produce.
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