And it’s been very controversial because, this time, it’s not the well-acknowledged and well-known left-wing antisemitism, what we see on campuses where people are yelling, “River to the sea,” or they’re chasing Jews into a library, or they’re tearing down pictures of the Israeli hostages—what we’ve seen for the last two years. I think part of it is the Left has so mainstreamed antisemitism, as we see on college campuses, and really said, you know, that if you’re Jewish, you’re for Israel, and if you’re for Israel, you’re for genocide, and demonize and threaten the safety of Jews that people on the right felt, well, the Left has sort of taken down the restrictions on what we can say and do. And I think the reason for the rise of antisemitism is an element, the isolationist base of the MAGA movement, felt that it was the driving force, and that it was going to be isolationist and we were not going to get involved in the Middle East.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-11-10 22:37:22
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