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October 13, 2022

Leftwing Anti-Semitism Can Only Be Defeated by Combating the Ideology That Underlies It

Merely reacting to the worst manifestations isn’t enough.

Surveying some of the worst recent cases of extreme hatred of Israel manifesting itself as naked anti-Semitism, David L. Bernstein notes that—often after pressure from Jewish leaders—institutions and politicians reacted as one might hope. The University of California, Berkeley, for instance, threatened campus groups with consequences if they pursued their recently adopted policies of banning Zionists. Yet, argues Bernstein, these are tactical, not strategic, victories:

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