The New/Old Jew Hate

I rarely disagree with the great Caroline Glick, but hey-there's a first for everything.

She has a piece about the new/old antisemitism, and I took a long hard read of it, and this bit actually jumped out at me:

"Anti-Semitism is back in style. Its new justification is not race or religion. It is nationalism. Today’s anti-Semitism is predicated on preferring Palestinian and pan-Arab nationalism to Jewish nationalism. And like its racist and religious predecessors, its aim is to deny the right of Jews to be free."

So, I disagree.

I believe that antisemitism has never gone out of style. But after the Holocaust it just had to go under cover for a bit, because it was distasteful in polite society to hate Jews out loud while the flames of the crematoria were still burning and the piles of bodies were still making the European earth move under the feet of villagers everywhere.

Furthermore-it is not predicated on 'preferring' Palestinian and pan-Arab nationalism to Jewish nationalism, that is not it at all. The deference to Palestinian and pan-Arab nationalism is just the currently acceptable vehicle for expressing Judenhaas.

If the best and most socially acceptable way of expressing Judenhaas was wearing pink pantyhose on one's face with a swastika painted on both cheeks of one's butt, that is what we would see.

And, the aim is not to deny the right of Jews to be free, but rather to deny the right of the Jew to live.

Period.