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Why Is Antisemitism Reappearing in America?

(Jewish Insider) Walter Russell Mead interviewed by Rich Goldberg and Jarrod Bernstein - Antisemitism in America has risen and fallen in waves. Probably the peak of antisemitism in American history was in the 1930s and '40s. Another peak would have been in the 1880s and '90s. And to some degree, we're seeing a rise, though not yet to those levels. When people have lost faith in the promise of America, they often turned to conspiracy theories, to "Who were the puppet masters controlling our fate? Why are things not going the way we'd like them to go?" At these moments of American self-doubt, and when these basic ideas of American life are being contested more vigorously than usual, that's when antisemitism, both on the left and on the right, tends to reappear. Walter Russell Mead, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, is Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College.
2022-08-18 00:00:00
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