There is much uncertainty about what a Trump presidency will mean. On one point, however, the signs are clear: the next four years will see increased attacks on Muslim and other minority communities at home, hawkish support for Israel abroad, and a disdain for our right to criticize any of it.

Consider his appointments: white nationalist Steve Bannon has risen to chief strategist; Frank Gaffney, an Islamophobic conspiracy theorist who peddled the Obama-as-secret-Muslim story and claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the United States, will help pick Trump’s national security advisers; and an uninhibited Islamophobe who called the religion a “cancer” — retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn — will become national security adviser, a position “so influential that some have called it the White House’s second chief of staff.”

Trump has now nominated his bankruptcy lawyer, David Friedman, as ambassador to Israel. Friedman, who has been described as “more far right . . . than . . . [Israel prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,” has contributed tens of millions to settlement organizations and has likened the moderate Jewish lobby group J Street to Nazi collaborators for its support of a two-state solution.