This isn’t simply based on a reflexive, perennial fear of anti-Semitism. Along with a new tolerance for racism in high places, anti-Semitism is receiving a quasi-official rehab. Not: Blacks Will Not Replace Us — though their “great replacement” theory covers all groups that might dispossess the “white race.” It’s this incipient return to official respectability for anti-Semitism that’s new. For a sense of the surprising turns anti-Semitism can take, consider Trump’s chief policy guy and architect of his racist, anti-Muslim ban: Stephen Miller, a Jew. There’s even a sub-debate on the difference between anti-Semitic Jews and Jewish self-haters.

Source: thestar November 21, 2019 20:15 UTC