{"id":11599,"date":"2019-01-15T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:57:16","slug":"the-new-new-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-new-new-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"The New, New Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he old anti-Semitism was mostly, but not exclusively, a tribal prejudice expressed in America up until the mid 20th century most intensely on the right. It manifested itself from the silk-stocking country club and corporation (\u201cgentlemen\u2019s agreement\u201d) to the rawer regions of the Ku Klux Klan\u2019s lunatic fringe.<\/p>\n<p>While liberals from Joe Kennedy to Gore Vidal were often openly anti-Semitic, the core of traditional anti-Semitism, as William F. Buckley once worried, was more rightist. And such fumes still arise among the alt-right extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Yet soon a new anti-Semitism became more insidious, given that it was a leftist phenomenon among those quick to cite oppression and discrimination elsewhere. Who then could police the bigotry of the self-described anti-bigotry police?<\/p>\n<p>The new form of the old bias grew most rapidly on the 1960s campus and was fueled by a number of leftist catalysts. The novel romance of the Palestinians and corresponding demonization of Israel, especially after the 1967 Six-Day War, gradually allowed former Jew-hatred to be cloaked by new rabid and often unhinged opposition to Israel. In particular, these anti-Semites fixated on Israel\u2019s misdemeanors and exaggerated them while excusing and downplaying the felonies of abhorrent and rogue nations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/new-anti-semitism-woke-progressives-old-stereotypes\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The old anti-Semitism was mostly, but not exclusively, a tribal prejudice expressed in America up until the mid 20th century most intensely on the right. It manifested itself from the silk-stocking country club and corporation (\u201cgentlemen\u2019s agreement\u201d) to the rawer regions of the Ku Klux Klan\u2019s lunatic fringe. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1170,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-315","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11815,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-progressive-anti-semitism-and-why-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":11599,"position":0},"title":"Why Progressive Anti-Semitism \u2014 and Why Now?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The\u00a0New York Times International Edition\u00a0recently published an anti-Semitic cartoon of a dachshund with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu. 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