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Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ruth-wisse-the-iron-lady-of-the-american-jewish-right-6dc1d96b
Ruth Wisse Warns Now of 'the Organization of Politics against the Jews.'
(Wall Street Journal) Elliot Kaufman - The anti-Israel obsession has metastasized into what Ms. Wisse calls "the organization of politics against the Jews." That's her definition for the tendency that called itself antisemitism in Germany and anti-Zionism in the Soviet Union. "It shifts blame, directs it against a specific target, and it is the greatest coalition-builder," Ms. Wisse says. See Iran and the old Arab League for evidence-or see many U.S. colleges, where ritual denunciation of Israel has for years been an organizing principle of campus politics. What happens on campus doesn't stay on campus. Ms. Wisse says "the combination of the Jews' small size and inflated image" has long made them the ideal scapegoat. Exploitation of that combination is now ubiquitous on social media, soaking into the new youth culture. "Demagogues recognize the opportunity," she says. In the face of anti-Israel propaganda, Ms. Wisse detects a liberal Jewish yearning for powerlessness and the moral purity that comes with it. "It's a loss of moral confidence." She worries more, however, about a similar yearning and loss of confidence among Americans writ large.