COMMENTARY
The Real Anti-Semitic Threat
by Jonathan S. Tobin
December 14, 2015

…Anti-Zionists have always sought to depict their efforts as being different from traditional Jew hatred. But in the context of the contemporary debate about the Middle East that is a distinction without a difference. As Pope Francis said in October, political disagreements are permissible. But those who argue that the State of Israel has no right to exist in peace and prosperity are doing something that is not legitimate. As he correctly stated: “To attack Jews is anti-Semitism, but an outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism.” That is precisely what all too many in Europe and elsewhere are doing. To judge Israel by a different standard than other nations and to attempt to deprive the Jewish people of the same things that no one would think of denying to others — the right to a state of their own and the right of self-defense — are practicing discrimination. And discrimination against Jews is anti-Semitism. Those who wage war on the one Jewish state in the world are anti-Semites. READ MORE