Victor Davis Hanson almost got it right in his column on anti-Semitism.
He claims that the new anti-Semitism is the result of radical Islam’s hatred of Jews becoming normalized by politicians and media talking seriously with those who want an end to Israel and everyone inside it.
It is only new because of Islam’s program to rid the world of Jews.
This is not any different than Nazism’s hatred of the Jews.
And the fact that politicians and media are talking seriously with those Islamic leaders who want to destroy Israel and the Jews is no different than Neville Chamberlain and those who sided with him talking to Adolf Hitler and his Nazi sympathizers.
What Hanson is really saying is that the world (with some exceptions) is slowly drifting toward accepting the annihilation of Jewry much like the indifference of the world toward the Nazis’ reign of terror in the 1930s.
It is important to understand that there is no such thing as new anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is what it is no matter how you dress it up.
The danger of calling it new after the Holocaust is that it marginalizes the Holocaust, which up to now is the ultimate anti-Semitic act.
