Somewhat unexpectedly, the National Football League stands astride a pivotal moment in Jewish history. How do the Philadelphia Eagles (and the league more broadly) think about anti-Semitism? This week marks a turning point for Jews (and for American culture more broadly) as the NFL decides whether anti-Semitism is vile bigotry that must be stigmatized or something to be more or less tolerated.

Nobody would have asked about the NFL’s anti-Semitism policy had the Eagles’s DeSean Jackson not encouraged his social media followers to watch Louis Farrakhan’s three-hour anti-Semitic rant on July 4 or approvingly posted a fake quote from Adolf Hitler demonizing Jews on Instagram.