(Scotsman-UK) Andre Glucksmann - A left-wing anti-Semitism rages on French campuses (and European, and American ones) that, under the pretext of anti-Zionism, turns the Palestinian into an emblematic figure. He replaces the proletarian from the recent past as a symbol of all the oppressed on the planet, spearhead of the struggle against imperialism, capitalism, globalization, and so on. Israel's right to exist is called into question by numerous academics, militant environmentalists, anti-globalization activists, or more simply by the paleo-Marxists searching in vain for the next revolution. At the same time, a traditional anti-Semitism, shameful and repressed since the days of Vichy, Petain, and the collaboration with the war-time occupation, is sneakily rearing its head again - in particular within the old establishment and among French conservatives. A few slips here and there reveal that the Quai d'Orsay sees Israel as a weed planted in the heart of the "Arab world." Sadly, the reality of the day is that the rogue Islamists, the rising global Left, and the traditional anti-Semitism of European conservatives are mixing together in a dangerous cocktail for the Jews.
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