Speak up, Mr. President

This just isn’t that complicated, Mr. President. Anti-Semitism — or virulent manifestations of it, anyway — is on the rise in America. In January alone, 48 Jewish community centers in 27 states received nearly 60 bomb threats, which doesn’t include the many swastikas and hate slogans popping up.

One caller said an explosive device placed in the center would ensure that “a large number of Jews are going to be slaughtered.”

Here in New York, where more Jews live than in any other city by far, reported bias attacks in 2017 have nearly doubled compared to the same period last year, with the largest spike in antiSemitic hate crimes.

Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 12 last year, there were 13 reported anti-Semitic crimes. That number rose to 28 this year.

Not all these acts were committed by enthusiasts of President Trump. But there is little doubt that coincident with his rise, Jew hatred has come out of the American woodwork, from the Trumpfriendly right and the Trump-phobic left.

Even those who deny any connection must admit that it is the duty of any American leader to condemn any upsurge in hate crimes.

Yet when a reporter raised the matter with Trump Wednesday, his long and winding answer made not a single simple statement saying antiSemitism is repulsive or wrong or a threat to American values.

Called to address the problem again Thursday — by an Orthodox Jewish reporter — Trump blasted the question as “very insulting” and proclaimed himself “the least anti-Semitic person you have seen in your entire life.”

The President is not an anti-Semite or anything close, nor do we brand him as such.

But he — a man who spares no passionate adjective in condemning hostility towards Christians in other parts of the world — is offering a timid and incoherent response to a wave of hate against Jewish Americans.

It’s an easy test to pass. He is failing.