Since 2016, there has been a sudden outbreak of faux Holocaust historians, whose “facts” are divorced from their context and wielded for political gain. This weekend, after comedian Sarah Silverman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she quipped how “lucky [she was] to be given a star and not have to sew it on [her] clothes.” It hurts my heart to imagine what those who were stripped of their humanity and forced to wear that Star of David would think about Silverman’s offensive attempt at humor.

In an interview with Bill Maher, Silverman insinuated that the 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic crime in America is the fault of President Trump. The truth is murkier than what Silverman seems to think. The increase in attacks has not occurred solely at the hands of Trump supporters. From the spate of threats against over 100 American Jewish institutions in early 2017, an untold majority were the work of an Israeli Jewish teen. A Democratic volunteer with President Barack Obama’s first campaign is responsible for seven arsons at Williamsburg shuls and yeshivas and anti-Semitic graffiti left on a Brooklyn temple.