Commentary: White supremacy and Holocaust denial have deep roots in the Midwest
In a recent interview on the CNN podcast “The Axe Files,” crime writer Sara Paretsky talked about the antisemitism she faced growing up in a Jewish family in Kansas in the 1950s — antisemitism that limited what neighborhoods she and her family were allowed to live in.
Paretsky noted that Jews were subject to the same racially restrictive covenant laws as African Americans, which excluded them from housing in small Midwestern towns as well as in big cities such as Chicago.
As we we are seeing across the U.S. right now.
