At a major Turning Point USA conference last month — not a routine campus appearance, but a flagship event drawing more than 3,000 young conservatives at the University of Mississippi and livestreamed nationwide — Vice President JD Vance encountered a moment that demanded genuine leadership.

A student asked why America “owed” anything to Israel when “their religion does not agree with ours and openly supports the prosecution of ours.”

This was not confusion or clumsy phrasing. It was a deliberate articulation of an age-old antisemitic trope, thinly repackaged as geopolitical skepticism. It called for an immediate and unequivocal correction.

Instead, Vance nodded politely, took the question at face value and retreated into canned “America First” talking points that completely sidestepped

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