How the UN became a magnet for institutionalized hatred

There are certain unmistakable signs of an individual expressing antisemitic rhetoric that can help you identify the truly dangerous from the run-of-the-mill misanthropes. In my worldview, antisemites fall into three distinct categories. Two of the categories are fairly innocuous, although irritating, but ultimately inconsequential. The category to look out for is the third, which is dangerous and requires constant vigilance.

The First Category: “The Sheep”

These are the vapid students, camped out in their mothers’ basements together with the online trolls just chasing the next click. They have no actual moral compass, they have never researched an issue, and they have no actual intellect or knowledge beyond that morning’s consumption of whatever happens to be trending. Everything they know in life has been distilled to 240 characters, their worldview is shaped through the prism of polarity, and they are just happy to belong. Today it might be Jew hate, and tomorrow they will move on to whatever is fresh in their timeline. They are loyal to trends, not principles.

The Second Category: “The Influencers”

This encompasses those whose sole purpose in life is to be part of the conversation while racking up likes. These dopamine-fueled fiends will say and do anything to ensure that they are ‘relevant,’ blindly following the algorithm wherever it might lead. They amplify outrage for engagement while perpetuating overly simplistic and harmful narratives. Their “positions” are designed to generate the validation they so desperately crave. There is no bad publicity in this world; everything is exposure.

Fortunately, this group is mostly irrelevant because the majority of people in........

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