Joshua Muravchik
WSJ, Dec. 22, 2023
“There is no escaping the reality that the end of Israel could only mean the death of millions of its Jews. The fulfillment of anti-Zionism means nothing less than a second Holocaust.”
Some say that anti-Zionism isn’t tantamount to antisemitism. If so, it’s worse. Antisemitism always stings, but in the West today, it usually doesn’t wound. The same can’t be said of anti-Zionism.
Antisemitism in America has consisted mostly of small things: exclusion from country clubs, restrictive covenants on housing, quotas in college admissions, casual slights and insults. Since World War II, the same has been true, if a little worse, in the rest of the West. America and Europe have seen horrible moments of violence, such as at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 or the Toulouse shootings in France in 2012, as well as instances of intimidation, vandalism and assault. But these have mostly been isolated incidents.
Every one of these hurts me as a Jew. Jewish educational attainment and earnings in America nonetheless far exceed that of most other groups. Jews fill elite occupations, the heights of industry, and high office in government short of the presidency—all in numbers well beyond our proportion in the population. For the most part we dwell among our gentile neighbors in safety.
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