“If there is, indeed, any such thing as a ‘New Anti-Semitism’, it is ‘new’ in the sense that it does not fit the historical pattern of ancient anti-Semitism…”

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If there is, indeed, any such thing as a “New Anti-Semitism”, it is “new” in the sense that it does not fit the historical pattern of ancient anti-Semitism, which was primarily cultural in nature; Christian anti-Semitism, which was religious; and modern anti-Semitism, the racial variety of the 19th and 20th centuries, which culminated in Nazism and ultimately in the destruction of European Jewry. Finally, there is the contemporary manifestations of anti-Zionism and Israelophobia, and how they fit (or don’t fit) the pattern.

Jerome A. Chanes, “Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and The Line Between Them”, The Jewish Week (29 April 2016), 23.

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