When I was growing up, antisemitism was simply unthinkable. This was because of guilt over the Holocaust.
But antisemitism is the world’s oldest sport. I often wondered how it make its Voldemort-like return.
About 20 years ago, I was at a dinner party that included a prominent intellectual and figure in the New York cultural scene. That was the first time I heard the Palestinian issue used as a cover for antisemitic remarks.
And then it dawned on me: it would make its comeback through the Left. The well-heeled were just waiting for a pretext to reengage. Edward Said and friends were going to give it to them.
The old Jew-hatred (which in fact is envy) never really went away. All it needed was a new way to legitimatize itself in our post-Christian age.
