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Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Columbia newspaper The Spectator that the arrest was "in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism."

According to Trump's executive order, federal authorities are now charged with identifying all civil and criminal actions within their respective jurisdictions "that might be used to curb or combat anti-Semitism."

But some have defended him, including the Anti-Defamation League, an organisation founded to combat anti-Semitism.

But the spectre of anti-Semitism had begun raising its ugly head.

Born into a wealthy family in 1895, she had seen her life, and the world around her, change due to war, industrialisation and a wave of anti-Semitism.