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Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/antisemites-right-and-left-4cb62973?mod=opinion_lead_pos8
The Duty to Speak Plainly about Jew-Hatred
(Wall Street Journal) Barton Swaim - What makes antisemitism in the 2020s so menacing is its expression by gullible journalists and kaffiyeh-wearing postgraduates using big terms they don't understand: "Zionism," "genocide," "occupation." The zeal with which a sizable part of the electorate fixates on the Jewish state - a sliver of a country on the other side of the world - defies explanation. Why the obsession with Israel but not Myanmar or Sudan? Why such expressive pity for the Palestinians but none for the Uyghurs? That so many in America's chattering classes claim to fear the onset of "fascism" but consistently ignore or euphemize antisemitism - historical fascism's vilest component - is one of the saddest ironies of our age.