Antisemitism Is Spreading Everywhere… and It’s Getting Deadly 

I’m writing this on Friday, October 3. Two days earlier, I wrote the following in my Journal, in anticipation of writing a longish essay about the state of antisemitism today:

I’m very concerned about what is undeniably a new strain of antisemitism that seems to have broken out. It is a virulent and contagious strain of Jew-Hate that has been growing steadily since the subhuman attack and slaughter of peaceful and defenseless Israeli Jews by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.

It is deeply infested in the US, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and in virtually every Liberal and Leftist political party in the Free World. It is deeply infested in universities, trade unions, teachers’ unions, and even environmental and civil-rights groups. It’s spread throughout Hollywood and the Arts. It’s the default interpretation for the mainstream media for any and all news about Israel. And it is expressing itself in violent protests and what seems to be murder.

While the blood of the slaughtered was still warm on Oct. 8, we witnessed a shocking, worldwide expression of support for the inhuman butchers who engineered and carried out that massacre. Back then, the rhetoric was about open-air prisons and freedom fighters, proportionality and Islamophobia. Now it’s about the objectification and demonization not just of Israel, but of Jews. All Jews.

Genocide is a word that these groups have selected to mischaracterize Israel’s war with Hamas – although nothing could be farther from the truth. But the current environment feels like a petri dish for some form of semi-passive global genocide against the Jews.

I know that this sounds extreme. And I know that many who read this will dismiss it as a hysterical delusion. But based on what I’ve experienced personally, in conversations with economists, authors, college professors, business leaders, and even Libertarian thinkers, I am losing hope that all this hatred and resentment will soon go away.

My leftist and liberal friends (including leftist and liberal Jews) will object to my worries. They will assure me that this is all Netanyahu’s fault, and that once the Palestinians have their own state, the trouble will go away. (They forget – or maybe they don’t know – that in 2005, in an effort to appease its Arab enemies, Israel ceded the Gaza Strip to the Muslims that lived there and forced the Jews living there to clear out.)