In 1790, as our nation was establishing the bedrock of our shared values and moral clarity, President George Washington penned a letter to the Jewish congregation. He reassured them that our new country would give bigotry no sanction, no assistance, to persecution. He said the children of Abraham would not live in fear.
At Cornell last week, we saw how conciliation leads to evil in the purest form, with coordinated online threats vowing to stab, shoot, rape and kill Jewish men and women on campus. If this were any other minority group, the far left would be apoplectic, and the media would be insatiable. Proverbs says, he who justifies the wicked or condemns the righteous are an abomination to the Lord. There’s a point where cowardice becomes complicity. That point has since been passed.