Something you hear a lot from the right when you bring up the President’s penchant for inflammatory language that ignites neo-Nazis is that the president can’t possibly be anti-Semitic because he has a Jewish daughter. It’s a line we have heard uttered by almost every member of the Trump administration at one time or another, as well as from his supporters — including his Jewish supporters — when uncomfortable things come up, like him saying there were “fine people” among the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, or his white nationalist friend Steve Bannon, or the fact that David Duke sees in him a friend and co-conspirator in the fight for a whiter America.
That’s when they inevitably jump in with the line: “But how could he be anti-Semitic? He has a Jewish daughter!”
After all, Ivanka Trump is widely understood to be the President’s favorite daughter, and he let her marry a Jew — Jared Kushner — and convert to Judaism, ergo he must not be an anti-Semite, or so the logic goes.
It has got to be the biggest logical fallacy of all time.
Not only is Ivanka not proof of her father’s love of Judaism, but she is actually her father’s worst enabler.
