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"We rightly teach the history of #antisemitism through catastrophe: medieval #libels, #European #pogroms, the #Holocaust, the failure of the #UnitedStates to admit more #Jewish refugees in the 1930s, the persistence of exclusion and prejudice closer to home. These lessons matter. A serious nation does not flatter itself by averting its eyes from its failures.

But history cannot only be a rebuke. If we teach antisemitism only through examples of atrocities and exclusion, we risk handing down a moral memory composed entirely of warning and fear. We tell students what hatred looks like, but not always what neighborliness looks like. We show them what #America has done wrong, but not enough of what Americans, in town after town, at their best, did right.

The older American record is richer than our national shorthand suggests."

https://lawliberty.org/the-american-synagogue/