Jared Kushner defends Donald Trump in raw op-ed

Jared Kushner.
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In an op-ed published Wednesday at the Observer, Jared Kushner responded to those urging him to call out his father-in-law Donald Trump over the latter's perceived anti-Semitic behavior. Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, is Jewish, as are Trump's grandchildren. Ivanka converted to Judaism before marrying Kushner in 2009.

Kushner begins his Observer piece bluntly, writing: "My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite." He goes on to detail his family's personal history with the Holocaust — he lost a great-aunt and a great-uncle in the war, he writes — to explain that he knows "the difference between actual, dangerous intolerance versus these labels that get tossed around in an effort to score political points." Kushner also called Trump an "incredibly loving and tolerant person" who has embraced his family's Jewish faith from day one. "The from-the-heart reactions of this man are instinctively pro-Jewish and pro-Israel," Kushner wrote.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.