"Donal" wrote
You, obviously, think that "trade" is the same as "entering the war".

The fact is that you did *not* enter the war until Hitler declared war on
the US.

The Jews had nothing to do with it at all.

Depends on your definition of "enter". AFAIK the US did not declare war on
Germany nor send any troops to Europe until Hitler declared war - as you
say. OTOH, the US did supply both the UK and Russia - but not Germany -
with war materials on very easy credit (Lend-Lease Program) earlier and lost
a number of ships and merchant sailors lives doing so. Some, especially the
nazis, thot that constituted entering the war.

I don't understand your comment about Jews. While there was prejudice
against them it was on the level of "can't get into the country club",
nothing like in Europe. The reason is US Jews themselves. By and large they
are Americans who happen to be Jewish instead of Catholics or Baptists or
???. The vast majority don't speak a different language, dress differently,
or live in ghettos or otherwise set themselves apart like euro Jews did
pre-ww2. As citizens many Jews lobbied for the US to join the war. Other
Americans, particularly of German descent felt otherwise .... til Pearl
Harbor. The compromise was a policy that greatly favored the UK at the
expense of Hitler but stopped short of actually joining the war.