One year ago, the United States was gripped by an epidemic of antisemitism that was so aggressive and so blatant that many Jewish parents feared sending their young children to school, Jewish students were regularly accosted and sometimes attacked on college campuses, Jews were sometimes pummeled on the streets, synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized throughout the United States, and American Jews were widely accused of abetting and sometimes even participating in genocide.
I don't know the dynamics. What form does it take? Isolated acts of vandalism, large scale demonstrations, violence? Antisemitism isn't going way, nor is any other anti-. We seem to be becoming more, not less, tribal. A function of increased scarcity of resources, I suppose, or at least the perception of it. But here, there has a steep drop in not the number of incidents but, more important, I think, the number of people involved in each.
This is a terrific analysis of a very complicated situation
And something to remember - a policy that proves successful usually pulls political favor along with it - something like the Victor gets to write the history - something I think to be understood calculated remembered and to a point feared
Thanks, doc. Yes, the fact that Israel is winning certainly helps them along, especially against an enemy we find as loathsome as Iran. Gives Mossad back some of the aura they lost after the failure of 10/7. What's most important to me is differentiating core antisemitism, which is an ongoing problem, and political antisemitism, which tends, like many such phenomena, to be an issue du jour.
Not here in Canada. It’s still on the rise.
I don't know the dynamics. What form does it take? Isolated acts of vandalism, large scale demonstrations, violence? Antisemitism isn't going way, nor is any other anti-. We seem to be becoming more, not less, tribal. A function of increased scarcity of resources, I suppose, or at least the perception of it. But here, there has a steep drop in not the number of incidents but, more important, I think, the number of people involved in each.
This is a terrific analysis of a very complicated situation
And something to remember - a policy that proves successful usually pulls political favor along with it - something like the Victor gets to write the history - something I think to be understood calculated remembered and to a point feared
Great article
Thanks, doc. Yes, the fact that Israel is winning certainly helps them along, especially against an enemy we find as loathsome as Iran. Gives Mossad back some of the aura they lost after the failure of 10/7. What's most important to me is differentiating core antisemitism, which is an ongoing problem, and political antisemitism, which tends, like many such phenomena, to be an issue du jour.