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Why Do So Many Have a Blindspot on Jew-Hatred?

(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - English sports broadcaster and former soccer professional Gary Lineker shared an "anti-Zionist" Instagram post illustrated with a rat emoji. The Jew as rodent, as vermin-like pest, doesn't get more Nazi era than that. The likening of Jews with rats was all the rage in Nazi Germany, depicting Jews as a rodent race that "carry contagion." Der Sturmer published cartoons of Jew-rats being exterminated. If Jews were rats, then their incineration in the death camps was not a crime - it was "pest control." To see the "Jew rat" make a comeback in 2025 is chilling in the extreme. You couldn't ask for better proof that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism in a keffiyeh than the fact that some of its adherents are now rehabilitating the rat propaganda. We live under a regime of influencers who are hyper-sensitive about racism. Who see racism in everything. And yet when Jew-hatred surges, they seem not to notice. We now have people on the streets chanting for the Army of Muhammad to come back and finish off the Jews. If a well-known public figure had shared a social-media post likening black folk to monkeys, these people would have gone nuts, for days. But it was just Jews, so nothing to see here.
2025-05-18 00:00:00
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