JNS
The weeping antisemite
Benjamin Kerstein
August 3, 2026
Antisemites, generally speaking, have a remarkable capacity for self-pity. Indeed, their entire worldview is based on it. Universally, they see themselves as hapless victims of Jews oppression, while their vicious invective and incitement are merely speaking truth to Jewish power. Anyone who points out that what they are saying and doing is evil is portrayed as a monstrous oppressor attempting to silence them in service of craven Jewish ends. We see this today perhaps more than at any time since Hitler proclaimed that the Jews had engineered all of Germany’s woes, but something has been added to it: the factor of sympathy, in particular, the profession of sympathy for the Palestinians as both sword and shield. Many if not most current antisemites claim to be compassionate, empathetic, progressive citizens who are simply lamenting Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people and attempting to stop it. The fact that this is a blood libel is irrelevant to them. They proclaim themselves partisans of humanitarianism and human rights. Often explicitly and always implicitly, they claim that it is Israel and the Jews who are enemies of those principles and, as such, humankind. READ MORE