As antisemitism surges, one of the aspects of this disturbing phenomenon is how antisemitism manifests itself. One way to look at all this is to recognize that sometimes it is a matter of talking about Jews with regard to a negative development where such mention is inappropriate. And sometimes it is a matter of ignoring the Jewish component where one can’t truly understand what is happening without a reference to Jews. 

In the latter case, historically what stands out was the way the Holocaust was portrayed too often in England following World War II. Often, when the atrocities of the concentration camps surfaced in public discussion, one did not see or hear the word “Jew” appearing. Here we had he greatest systematic killing of a people in history, and yet the target of these exterminations, after a decade of actions taken by the Nazis against German Jews, was all-but absent from public discussion. One can attribute this to ongoing antisemitism in Britain or, more specifically, to hostility toward Jews emanating from the conflict in British Mandate-era Palestine between the Jews and the........

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