My observation points to a disturbing phenomenon: the recycling of old demons in new guises. Anti-Semitism, which we thought had been relegated to the extreme fringes, now dresses itself up in the “acceptable” costume of anti-Zionism or “criticism of Israel.” What is striking, however, is not the political criticism of a state—which is legitimate in a democracy—but the systematization of this criticism, its obsessive nature, its excessive selectivity, and the shift from politics to identity. When it is no longer just the decisions of a government that........

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