An article by my friend Thane Rosenbaum should be read by and circulated to all those ostrich-like political conservatives who ignore, deny or trivialize present-day antisemitism in their midst.

“The antisemitic fervor and hatred of Israel on the far right is both growing and not all that different from the progressive Democratic left,” he wrote earlier this week in the Jewish Journal. “And the woke right is not influenced by the ahistorical revisionism on campus and the irresponsible journalism of mainstream media. The far right doesn’t need propaganda to feed its addictions.”

Rosenbaum highlights far-right luminaries Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Carrie Prejean Boller who have been anything but subtle in their crude antisemitic rhetoric.

I wholeheartedly agree with Rosenbaum that far-right antisemitism must be taken as seriously as its far-left equivalent. Others, unfortunately, feel differently. Ambassador Yehuda Kaploun, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, took Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis and a former chief rabbi of Moscow, to task for saying at the Davos World Economic Forum that “the rise of the extreme right in many European countries is a response to the insecurity felt by the so-called old Europeans regarding the new immigrants who came from the Middle East.”

“Blaming ‘old Europe’ for the present surge in antisemitism is disgraceful,” Ambassador Kaploun posted on X in response, instead casting “mass migration” as “a huge driver of antisemitism” that “threatens the safety of Jews and all communities.”

The difference between Goldschmidt and Kaploun is that Goldschmidt understands that antisemitism emanates from both the extreme left and the extreme right while Kaploun appears to be deaf in his right ear. In this regard, Kaploun is in synch with Vice President JD Vance who declared in December that “the single most significant thing you could do to eliminate antisemitism” would be the reduction immigration to the United........

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