Antisemitism Exposed

LIORA REZ: Antisemitic tropes masquerade as criticism of Israel

Protocols of the Elders of Zion tropes now manifest as claims that 'Israel controls America' and 'Zionists run the media'

By Liora Rez Fox News

Published March 18, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Almost daily, we are told that what looks, sounds and stinks like antisemitism is merely "criticism of the Israeli government." But when classic antisemitic tropes are recycled almost verbatim and simply mapped onto the Jewish state, we should stop pretending this is ordinary political disagreement.

What we see on campuses, podcasts and in our streets is nothing more than the resurrection of myths that long predate the modern state of Israel and have been used for centuries to target Jews as Jews.

Consider the medieval blood libel, where Jews were falsely accused of murdering Christian children for ritual purposes. The first recorded case, in Norwich, England in 1144, set off a chain of similar accusations across Europe that fueled massacres and expulsions of Jewish communities. The same falsehoods have been perpetuated in the modern era in many Arab countries.

WESTERN LEADERS MUST CONFRONT ISLAMIST-INSPIRED ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE........

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