Opinion If Israel Were the Only Issue, My Vote Would Be for Trump
Anti-Semites are all over the fringes of this election. But any suggestion that they are worse on Trump’s right fringe than Clinton’s left fringe is illusory.
Seth Lipsky
Seth Lipsky is editor of The New York Sun. He was foreign editor and a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, founding editor of the Forward and editor from 1990 to 2000.
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