The New Anti-SemitismMaimon Schwarzschild

Here is Alvin Rosenfeld’s rather devastating report on the “new anti-semitism”.

[H]ostility to Jews has morphed into hostility toward a Jewish state, and that hatred has acquired the ability to leap across national, linguistic, and religious boundaries. Old tropes, such as Jews as well-poisoners or as conspiratorial power brokers, have been transformed into Jews as inoculators of AIDS in the Arab world or contaminators of Palestinian water sources or manipulators of American foreign policy. The spread of these calumnies has been especially rapid in the Muslim world, but Europeans, not only those within Muslim communities, have been susceptible to the virus. Those who denounce Israel as an outlaw & are found on both the left and the right, among the educated elites as well as the uneducated classes, and among Christians as well as Muslims. A conflation of interests among these divergent groups has led to a well-documented spike in violence against Jews on streets of European cities as well as a parallel rise in verbal aggression whether it be tarring Israel as a Nazi state or its prime minister as a terrorist and a war criminal.

Read the whole – very troubling but well-written and well-documented – thing.