Trump & antisemitism

Douglas Bloomfield’s hatred of US President Donald Trump is clear in his failure to note the fact that the Trump administration is actively prosecuting antisemitism (“Trump keeps Jews in Democratic camp,” Washington Watch, March 9). It has arrested Juan Thompson, who is charged with making threats against Jewish institutions throughout the US.

Obviously, Mr. Bloomfield’s blind hatred of President Trump prevents him from reporting the truth about its fight against antisemitism. RICHARD SHERMAN Coconut Creek, Florida

Douglas Bloomfield says his duly-elected president “represents hatred, bigotry, divisiveness, intolerance and xenophobia.” But the pundit’s four fingers point back at himself as he ignores the segment of the American electorate that thought its former president had sold their country down the river.

Long has the world been watching the truly great, tragically riven United States tear itself apart. Civilization is crying a river, crying its heart out. Our enemies are ecstatic. ESTER ZEITLIN Jerusalem

After bomb threats to numerous Jewish institutions across America, the desecration of hundreds of gravestones in half a dozen cemeteries since beginning of the year, and a letter by 100 senators to President Donald Trump asking for help, what’s next?

Polls show that 70% of Americans see rising antisemitism. Are we recreating the 1930s, when America closed its doors to European Jewry facing annihilation?

If history is any guide, it always begins with desecrating cemeteries. Thousands were destroyed in the 1930s throughout Germany. By war’s end, an untouched Jewish cemetery in Europe was hard to find.

When hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled by Arab nations in 1948 with the creation of Israel, many of their cemeteries were destroyed. And when Israel captured Jerusalem in 1967, it found half of the 150,000 graves in the 3,000-year-old Mount of Olives cemetery destroyed.

Will we need protect our cemeteries? Will we see armed soldiers protecting Jewish institutions, as is common throughout France? Will Jews holding services at their local temples require police protection?

Will we see vigorous demands across America to stop the hatred, or will our elected leaders just wait and see if the hatred escalates? If history is any guide, rising hatred never stops without effective action. PETER I. BERMAN Norwalk, Connecticut