Anti-Semitism and the

United Ethno States of America

It is now a week since the terrorist attack at the Tree of Life
synagogue in Pittsburgh. This attack comes as a proof to the
theory that "anti-semitism is now at an unprecedentedly soaring
level in the US."
The terrorist attack was the last ring of a chain of events; the one
before this being the alt-right rally in Charlottesville, where a
group of white men were witnessed carrying torches at night and
chanting "Jews will not replace us!" Moreover the mobilization in
Charlottesville did not face the adequate response from the White
House to meet what a lot of people demanded. On the other
hand, the world heard Donald Trump's words as the clashes
between the right and left group started to rise that "There were
very fine people in both groups."
Why was it mere optimism to expect Trump to react differently to
Charlottesville or to Pittsburgh? Trump's attitude and his hunger
for winning has led him to a point where he has never tried to
express any hostility towards his supportes' misconducts. This
goes hand in hand with the fact that Trump uses an extremely
divisive rhetoric thus strengthening the notion that the US is
principally a white country. With such a remark the US is not
supposed to have room for Jews, just as it is not supposed to
tolerate the Hispanics, Asians, Middle-Easterns and Africans.
This is the point where a lot of those who position themselves
beside Trump in American politics now fire back. The means to
such a backfire is as a matter of fact Trump's close ties with the
Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu's office. To a lot of
those in favor of Trump's politics, including Jews, Trump has been
the closest POTUS to Israel who has moved the US embassy to
Jerusalem, gotten rid of the Iran Deal and has demonstrated
proven support for Israel in the region.
This is the point where the notion of ethno-state comes into
question. In the alt-right nomenclature, state is considered a racial
and ethnic aparatus. That is in fact the way the American alt-right
engages with the idea of immigrants, proposing the US as a
prevalently "white country" that cannot be preserved by someone
else's babies as Steve King, GOP Congressman from Iowa, put it
once about a year ago. In such a doctrine of ethno-state, Israel is
identified as the Jewish ethno-state and the American jews are
welcomed to leave the US and move to the "jewish state of
Israel." That is what Netanyahu's office has vowed to push
towards and for which has indeed made moves over the past few
months.
It is not the first time the world is observing such hostilities
towards the Jewish people. What's more, the anti-semitism that
the world is displaying now leads to less accountability for the
State of Israel for the way it is treating Palestinians and the
humanitarian issues in places such as Gaza. If there is a "Jewish
Nation-State" which is benefiting from the anti-semitism around
the world, it might be the case to be more skeptic of the raison-
d'être of such a state.