Opinion: Jew-hatred, like a virus, survives by adapting to changing conditions, writes Batsheva Neuer
Following anti-Semitic comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, the panel discuss the hypocrisy surrounding a House Democratic resolution taking on hate speech which includes anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and other forms of bigotry. Image: GettyThe House voted last week to condemn anti-Semitism and a long list of other hatreds—but not anti-Zionism. Rep. Ilhan Omar and her defenders insist anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. They have a point, but a far weaker one than they think.
The ideology of “anti-Semitism” was created in 1879 by German pamphleteer Wilhelm Marr. He put a modern, Darwinian gloss on ancient anti-Semitic myths by positing that Jews were innately inferior because of racial characteristics handed down...
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