[New Republic] Howard Jacobson - In the tone of the debate, in the spirit of the national conversation about Israel, in the slow seepage of familiar anti-Semitic calumnies into the conversation, one can find growing reason for English Jews to be concerned. Mindless acts of vandalism come and go, but what takes root in the intellectual life of a nation is harder to identify and remove. In the end, it is frankly immaterial how much of this is Jew-hating or not. The inordinacy of English Israel-loathing - ascribing to a country the same disproportionate responsibility for the world's ills that was once ascribed to a people - is toxic enough in itself.
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