The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon – perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan.
A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog.
On campuses, Middle-East activism, course instruction, and faculty profiles are now virulently anti-Israel – and indistinguishable from anti-Jewishness.
And remember folks, the perps are always white supremacists! Even when they’re black and or Muslim!
