It may be a cliche to compare a situation to a fox guarding the henhouse, but sometimes cliches offer real insight. Three Minnesota lawmakers are doing the fox-henhouse routine by proposing that anti-Semitic Islamist organizations be engaged to convene a task force on anti-Semitism.

Their sneak attempt to redefine anti-Semitism would be mere silliness if it weren’t part of a repeated strategy of making Islamists the arbiters of what is and isn’t allowable to say and do against Jews.