Anti-Semitism and the Left

After being forced by Covid-19 restrictions to celebrate Passover alone last year, like their Israeli brethren, American Jews were by and large able to celebrate the Passover seder with their friends and families this year. And as in Israel, American Jewish families reveled in their deliverance from loneliness on the Jewish festival of deliverance.

As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it useful as a way of identifying instances of anti-Semitism—and especially the “new anti-Semitism” which couches itself as criticism of Israel—predictably, though unsurprisingly, groups that wish to continue to slander and libel the Jewish state have come out in opposition to it. What bothers these indignant individuals? Possibly the section of the IHRA definition that suggests that “Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” is anti-Semitic.

“…If hate is taught, it can be untaught through education, right?

Wrong, according to a new survey spearheaded by Prof. Jay P. Greene, Prof. Albert Cheng and Ian Kingsbury, who discussed their results in a feature article published recently in Tablet magazine. Their survey was designed to determine whether anti-Semitism is associated with lower levels of education. Their shocking results reveal that we have probably put too much of our faith over the last century into education. In fact, it’s possible that the opposite may be true — that the more educated you are, the more anti-Semitic you might be.”