A woman holds a placard reading Israel we stand with you! at the Frankfurt united against anti-Semitism event. According to one journalist, four elements come together to create a toxic brew that is legitimizing attacks on Israel and the Jews. ANDREAS ARNOLD/ PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES.
The factors driving the rising tide of antisemitism sweeping across the globe may seem to be coming from different directions, but they are actually closely connected.
Britannica says: Anti-Semitism, is the hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns underway in Central Europe at that time. Nazi anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Holocaust, had a racist dimension in that it targeted Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics.
According to journalist Jonathan Tobin, the problem is the confluence of four factors: the growing dominance of cultural Marxism and woke ideology; the left’s war on the West and the red-green alliance of liberal elites and Islamists; an ideology-driven press that embraces open bias; and the curse of antisemitism, which attaches itself to every dominant ideology. Together, they create a toxic brew that is legitimizing attacks on Israel and the Jews.
Scholar and author Richard Landes, shares similar sentiments on Antisemitism, and Global Jihad.
“Movements rooted in apocalyptic predictions, as were common in the Middle Ages, and today among leftists and Islamists, pave the way for a surge in hateful and violent attacks on Jews,” said Landes.
What he calls a culture of “lethal journalism” that accepts bias against Israel and Jews has legitimized blood libels against Jews. The contemporary form of this traditional trope of antisemitism is the claim that Israelis target and murder Palestinian children, as shown by the debunked myths about the death of Muhammad al-Durrah and the 2002 battle in Jenin against Palestinian terrorists.
“Woke ideology paves the way for progressives to accept lies about Israel and for the media to spread an apocalyptic mindset that hinges on paranoid ideas about cosmic forces controlling the world or betraying it. Jews are always the victims of such thinking,” says Landers.
Produced in association with Jewish News Syndicate
Edited by Judy J. Rotich and Newsdesk Manager
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