(Telegraph-UK) Howard Jacobson - The antisemitism of today is purposive, orchestrated hate, combining Islamic hostility to the very idea of a Jewish state on Arab land; Christian anti-Judaism that goes back two thousand years; and professorial obsession with settler-colonialism, a made-up academic discipline that denominates Zionism as an ideology of conquest, no matter that the first Zionists were returning to their historic homeland as refugees from the pogroms of Eastern Europe. As for the argument that you can hate Zionism and not hate Jews, that was blown apart in the first weeks of October 2023 when all such distinctions were dropped in the carnival excitement of the butchering and raping of Jews wherever they came from and whatever they believed. "Kill the Jews!," the cry went out across the world. Not just Zionists and Israelis, but all Jews.
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