Shouldn’t Israel Care About Anti-Semitism?<br />Jews suffered that the hopes o<br />Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, tried to deflect criticism of the statement by saying<br />that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "welcomes this administration" and "appreciates the friendship and respect" that Mr. Trump "has shown to Israel and the Jewish people." In other words: The Trump administration is a friend of Israel’s and therefore a friend of the Jewish people.<br />Shmuel Rosner<br />FEB. 8, 2017<br />TEL AVIV — Jews across the United States were rightly troubled<br />and angered at the end of January, when a White House statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day failed to mention the Holocaust’s principal victims: Jews.<br />The statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day — provoking Jewish outcry<br />in the United States, while provoking nothing from Israel — just proved it.<br />Still, Israel’s silence on the White House’s Holocaust statement tells us a few disturbing things about the Jewish state.<br />Shmuel Rosner is the political editor at The Jewish Journal, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute and a contributing opinion writer.
