Monthly Archives for June 2018


President Trump, Der Ewige Jude, and the Need to Read Offensive History

In an analysis of President Donald Trump’s use of the word “infest” in his 19 June 2018 tweet, Aviya Kushner cites the 1940 anti-Semitic film Der Ewige Jude. Kushner quotes the following from an article published by the American Holocaust Museum, “One of the film’s most notorious sequences compares Jews to rats that carry contagion, […]