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Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/confronting-the-new-antisemitism/
The New Antisemitism: A Viral Variant of an Ancient Madness
(National Review) Michael Brendan Dougherty - Antisemitism continues to spread like a brain disease in the people who give in to it. You start a conversation about anything at all, the price of a carton of eggs, and they respond with a criticism of Bibi Netanyahu. It's nuts. The algorithm on X (and, I'm told, TikTok) seems to favor clips of Nick Fuentes, who denies the extent of the Holocaust. He is, along with Candace Owens, literally trying to mainstream in the 2020s the "Jewish question" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the one that led to pogroms against Jews. Fuentes thinks Hitler is "cool." Antisemitism is disgusting, it is undignified, its exponents should be embarrassed to even be seen in the light of day. They fashion themselves intellectuals, while their conclusions are enacted by street thugs who punch people out in Brooklyn or desecrate graveyards or shoot up synagogues. This is a case that men of goodwill are going to have to take up exhaustively and in earnest against this viral new variant of an ancient madness.