As part of my continuing (but relatively new) effort to gain exposure to new audiences, I have a guest column today at The Hill, Anti-Semitism flares up with Gaza crisis.
How timely given the events just today about attacks on Jewish school children in Sydney.
Here’s an excerpt, head over to The Hill to read the whole thing, and please share with friends via The Hill share buttons:
Certainly, in theory, one can be anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic. There are ultra-religious Jews who do not believe in Zionism for religious reasons. And there are some left-wing Jews who side against Israel. There also are those who truly just want Israel to leave Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), although the Israeli departure almost a decade ago from Gaza calls such a strategy into question.But the exceptions prove the rule. Intellectually one can distinguish anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism. But in the real world, on the streets of Paris, Berlin, London, Boston, Miami and elsewhere, they are one and the same.It’s time we stopped pretending otherwise.
(Featured Image: Frankfurt protest sign, “The Jews Are Beasts“)
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