Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Publication Title

FIU Law Review

Keywords

antisemitism, White Christian Nationalism (WCN), American democracy

Abstract

For a short period following World War II, it seemed like the World is aspiring to become a better place. Article I of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflected that notion, announcing that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” That was the closest we, as a family of nations, ever came to fulfill the “dream of reason”—a state where we all work together, free from hate and prejudices, towards a common goal: A better world for ourselves and our posterity.

This is no longer the case. Dark clouds are hovering over American democracy. Dark forces are aiming to break the institutions and traditions we so carefully labored to establish. For the first time in our history, a President refused to concede his defeat in the general election, causing a (failed) insurrection and an attack on the Capitol.

It is in that light that we should examine the threat posed by White Christian Nationalism to the health and safety of American Jewry. We cannot allow images from another century, and another continent, to be repeated here. The legal system has provided us with several tools to prevent at least some of those dire consequences. We should use those tools wisely.

Volume

19

Issue

2

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