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January 17, 2017

How Modern Anti-Semitism Is Predicated on Memory of the Holocaust

At the core of new and old anti-Semitism is the humiliated Jew, stripped of legitimacy and under attack.

Today’s anti-Semitism, writes Shmuel Trigano, even if it is not so different from the anti-Semitism of previous eras, finds its main expression in objection to the Jewish state’s existence. But while the Muslim variant is explicable in that it is rooted in religious rejection of Jewish sovereignty in the midst of the Middle East, the Western variety is harder to understand:

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