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Alexandra Petri: Anti-Semitism’s evil goes without saying, but here’s a teleprompter statement

Anyone wondering how strongly the president feels about putting an end to anti-Semitism need only look at his statement to the Future Farmers of America after gun violence claimed 11 lives at the Tree of Life synagogue. He called it “frankly, something that is unimaginable.”

What could be a more ringing denunciation than that? This strident condemnation is even clearer than the administration’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement last year, which was already a shining masterpiece of perfection and whose only possible tweak would have been to mention the Jewish people.

Why, the president said "anti-Semitism" four times, including in one whole sentence where he did not quickly mention that other forms of evil are just as bad!