They established the 400-year-old foundation (since 1620) for the special affinity of the American people for the Jewish State, and America's high esteem for the Old Testament, which dwarf the significance of supremacists and any other form of anti-I
Contrary to European anti-Semitism, the recent episodes of anti-Semitism in the US--such as hundreds of white supremacists, bearing torches and giving the Nazi salute - represent a negligible American minority, religiously, socially, ethnically and politically. These episodes defy the civic, moral and religious foundations of the US, as well as the US political, media and civic discourse, which have demonstrated high esteem for Judaism from the era of the early Pilgrims, through the Founding Fathers until today.
The Colonial Origin of the American Constitution, by University of Houston Prof. Donald Lutz, highlights "the continuity from the [November 11, 1620] Mayflower Compact to the American state and national constitutions of the late eighteenth century, [which] clearly evolves from basic symbols in the Judeo-Christian tradition.... Protestants writing [constitutional] documents viewed their work as equivalent to the Jewish biblical covenants... between God and his chosen people.... The political compact eventually evolved into what we now recognize as the American form of constitutionalism...."
