One complicating matter in talking about anti-Jewish hatred is the fact that many Jews do hate. I’m not just talking about the occasional Jew who dreams of nuking every European city. I’m not just talking about the story of the girl who cried “Jew hater”. (Her brother cried “Wolf”.) I’m not just talking about a subculture of Jews who talk one another into a frenzy, lashing out at every outrage Muslims have committed lately, to the point where the latest atrocity is not so much of a reason to get angry but rather a pretext to vent rage. I’m not just talking about Kahane supporters. There are Jews who reflexively hate people of English ancestry, assuming that “Anglos” or “WASPs” have all the privileges. There are Jews who reflexively sneer at supposedly inbred people from Arkansas, never mind that cousin marriage in Arkansas is illegal while Jews have a specific exemption to practice cousin marriage (and uncle-niece marriage) in Rhode Island. There are Jews who hate other Jews they have never met with a passion that one would normally expect from a Nazi.

Jews are hardly the only group that has ever been hated in a virulent manner. And it’s not as though occasional Jews have never hated other people in the manner they are hated by Jew haters. It’s not as though Jew haters have a monopoly over self-pity.

Such hatred is self-defeating, not merely for Jew haters, but also for Jews who hate and for Jew hater haters.

The real reason why the State of Israel continues to exist today is because of Fatah and Hamas. If Israelis were left to themselves, they would likely have descended into a civil war long ago. Jew haters have almost certainly done more to promote the continued existence of the State of Israel than anybody else on the planet, certainly more than any “Zionist conspiracy” ever has.