The bigot’s guide to antisemitism
Anti-Jewish activists hide their bigotry behind euphemisms, criticism of Israel and the Palestinian cause.
Out of 8 billion people on the planet, there are only 16 million Jews – but far, far more antisemites. I sometimes joke that if I had fewer scruples, I wouldn’t report on anti-Jewish prejudice; I’d contract myself out to the more numerous and better-resourced bigots, and help them get away with it. Because in more than a decade covering antisemitism, I have become a reluctant expert in all the ways that anti-Jewish activists obfuscate their hate.
People must learn to recognise and reject these tactics because too many communities have developed ways to excuse or otherwise ignore antisemitism. Today, such prejudice is growing in high and low places because powerful people around the world are running the same playbook to launder their hate into the public sphere.
Atlantic
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