To battle Jew-hatred you must grasp that Jews are not hated for their failings, real or imagined, but for their virtues

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“And everybody hates the Jews.” In his satirical 1965 song “National Brotherhood Week,” after listing a host of specific ethnic, economic and religious hostilities, Tom Lehrer hit on a vital truth. Most bigotry is petty, localized and transient, though the human capacity for cruelty endures. But antisemitism is different and it matters. Including that when Islamists massacred Jews on Bondi Beach in Australia on Hanukkah, there was rage against … Jews.

For instance, a visiting Ivy League professor and former