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Joel Swanson

Joel Swanson is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He holds a PhD in the History of Judaism from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his writing has appeared in Haaretz, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial JusticeFebruary 13, 2025

JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins

By Joel Swanson

On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the…

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