Editor’s Note: Cut all ties to anti-Semites

Anti-Semitism seems to be the fashion in Washington this year.

Donald Trump selected as his senior counselor Steve Bannon, who ran a news website that has identified its targets of criticism as “a renegade Jew” and a “Polish Jew,” as if their flaws could be explained by their religion.

Democrats who went nuts over that appointment are now boosting for their next party chair a man with strong ties to anti-Semites.

Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a former black nationalist, was once affiliated with Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan, a notorious Jew hater.

At a fundraiser for a Libyan-born activist who urged terror attacks on Israel, Ellison remarked that Jews in this country have been “mobilized” to do Israel’s “bidding in America,” playing into the narrative that Jews secretly rule the world.

And in 2009 he was investigated by the House ethics committee for taking a pilgrimage to Mecca paid for by a group associated with the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

The Anti-Defamation League has called on Democrats not to elect Ellison as chair of their national committee.

Yet neither Republican nor Democratic leaders have denounced the picks of Bannon and Ellison.

They should. Anti-Semitism is unattractive whether it comes in red or blue.