In a recent piece at Chronicles, Paul Gottfried criticized the argument made by conservatives that the hysteria directed against Israel by the left is just another eruption of “traditional anti-Semitism.” Gottfried correctly diagnosed the motivation of the left as principally driven not by anti-Semitism, but by anti-white (or anti-Western) sentiment, which sees Israel as embodying “Western colonialism.”
In reality, both the terms “Western colonialism” and “traditional anti-Semitism” are misleading, or misapplied, or even just empty.
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