Benjamin Ginsberg’s The New American Anti-Semitism is a mediocre book that could have been superlative. The author is a distinguished professor of government at Johns Hopkins University who has produced more than 30 books. Two of them, The Captive Public (1988) and The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (1993), are especially worth reading, as they provide useful warnings about the degree to which the modern state tries to control our lives. The Fatal Embrace also deals critically with Jewish overreliance on the modern state as a protector.
Ginsberg’s latest does provide some useful information and timely warnings. It underlines the limits and dangers of the American Jewish romance with the political left. Ginsberg shows to what extent the woke and black nationalist left has deserted its Jewish benefactors and sided not only with Hamas sympathizers but also with very explicit anti-Semites. He also correctly stresses how conservative Christians have been the most faithful friends of American Jews but have had their friendship repeatedly spurned in favor of a continued Jewish alliance with the cultural and political left.
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