Let me focus on the blindness of celebrating the rise of authoritarian, bigoted leadership in the United States. In Mexico, China, Russia and Israel we ask people what they think of the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Israel asks American Jews for political backing and financial support, constantly and especially when it believes it is threatened. Even the tensions among American Jews over Israel’s policies are predicated on the belief that what happens in Israel matters to Jews in the United States. But at an absolute minimum, Netanyahu should be publicly voicing concern about anti-Semitic incidents in the United States before and after the election.

Source: Washington Post November 21, 2016 22:52 UTC