From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale.

This is The Daily.

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Today, until recently, many American Jews believed that anti-Semitism was a European problem,

one they had left behind.

But the attack in Pittsburgh didn't come out of nowhere.

It's Tuesday, October 30th.

Jonathan, tell us what happened on May 18th, 2016.

On May 18th, 2016, in the middle of the presidential campaign, I read a column by a conservative

Jewish writer named Robert Kagan, and was called, This Is How Fascism Comes To America.

And as I do a lot, I copy, pasted, put it on Twitter, and sent it out into the world.

And fairly quickly, I got a very strange reply from somebody named At Cyber Trump.

And all it said was, Hello, Weisman.

But Weisman, strangely enough, was in three parentheses, three open parentheses, three

closed parentheses.

And I had never seen that notation.

So I sent something back.

I said, Care to explain.

And then he sent me another note back saying, What ho, the vaunted Ashkenazi intelligence.

It's a dog whistle fool.

I was belling the cat from my fellow goyem.

And by belling the cat, this person literally meant I am putting a digital bell on Jonathan

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