Neal B. Freeman
National Review, Aug. 12, 2025
“I don’t know whether it’s that the ADL has stopped issuing screechy alarms or that I have stopped paying any attention to them. Whichever the case, the hour is late. The hardened reality is that antisemitism is everywhere now and the obligation falls to us to confront it.”
I used to joke with my friend Irving Kristol about his friends at the Anti-Defamation League, who professed to see antisemitism everywhere, even among baseball fans who for dark and unspoken reasons chose to root for the Red Sox over the Yankees. A National Review editor from those days, who might prefer to remain nameless, once deadpanned to an all-hands meeting that, projecting ADL’s numbers, within just three years 127 percent of American adults would be reported as committed antisemites. Even the Jews laughed.
It’s been a long, hot summer.
Two months ago, my next-door neighbor needed a new roof on his otherwise elegant Florida home. (The sun here beats the tar out of the shingles and the roof must be replaced every ten years or so.) He hired a motley crew and, in old-school journo style, I wandered over to chat them up over lunch breaks. They are an oppressed people, roofers. Spend a few summer days on a roof here and you will begin to look, and probably to feel, like a strip of bacon very recently fried.
Roofers, in the manner of oppressed peoples everywhere, need someone to blame for the living hell their lives have become and they have settled on the rich guys who live in air-conditioned splendor beneath expensive new roofs. Those guys tend to be lawyers, developers, forex traders, crypto bros. You know, Jews. They are the ones to blame…… … [To read the full article, click here.]