Donald Trump has dined with neo-Nazi Holocaust Revisionists at Mar-a-Lago and saw ‘very fine people on both sides’ of an antisemitic riot in Charlottesville. He made it clear that Jews would be to blame if he lost the election.

Now Trump is weaponizing, distorting and exploiting the reality of antisemitism to attack academic freedom and to try to control private and public universities and the nonprofit sector.

Even Kenneth Stern, the lead drafter of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, is now saying that the sweeping MAGA antisemitism campaign is targeting speech, immigrant rights and democracy for political purposes and is making Jewish students feel less safe.

The Senate should oppose Trump’s further transparent moves to undermine American democracy under the banner of opposing antisemitism.