“We must all speak out against antisemitism and call out those who don’t,” Emhoff said. He praised the Biden administration for providing religious institutions with more funds for security measures.
; many of his top advisers, including former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, are also Jewish)
A century ago, disaffected Germans — including many veterans of World War I — also tapped into latent antisemitism, which they turned into a movement that blamed Jews for all of their nation’s ills. Initially, the movement was violent, but small enough that most Germans did not take the Nazis seriously until their sudden emergence as a political force in the early 1930s.
“The trip was intense. It was emotional. It was somber,” Emhoff said, in a frank aside that had not been in his prepared remarks.
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