Donald Trump does not hate Jews — his daughter Ivanka, he will tell you, is a convert to Orthodox Judaism, and surely Sheldon Adelson would not back an anti-Semite. But Trump clearly has a sizable following among people who do hold unfavorable views of Judaism, they aren't shy about it, and it's becoming a problem. It "has been clear for some time," says Eric Wemple at The Washington Post, "that criticizing Trump while being Jewish is a hazardous online activity."
Wemple points to complaints from CNN's Jake Tapper and a host of conservative commentators, including John Podhoretz and Ben Shapiro, but the prompt for the story is New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman, who spent much of Thursday retweeting vile anti-Semitic comments he got from people with Twitter handles like CyberTrump, HandsomeGoy4Trump, and Trump, God Emperor. You can read them at his Twitter feed. What prompted this wave of ugliness? He tweeted out an op-ed by Robert Kagan warning that Trump could bring fascism to America:
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