This is another reason Jewish leaders have failed to address anti-Semitism in America, Weisman claims: They are too focused on Israel. “The American Jewish obsession with Israel has taken our eyes off not only the politics of our own country, the growing gulf between rich and poor, and the rising tide of nationalism but also our own grounding in faith,” he says. Sheldon Adelson and other Republican mega-donors have “grown so obsessed with Israel that the overt and covert signals of anti-Semitism beamed from the interior of the Trump campaign appeared to be disregarded.”