“Pro-Israel antisemitism”

JVL Introduction

There is a new antisemitism abroad, an acceptable one: you can be antisemitic as long as you are also a huge fan of Israel.

For Jelena Subotić, interviewed here in +972 Magazine, recent developments shows how “far-right populist international networks are changing our traditional understanding of antisemitism, in that they’re decoupling from attitudes toward and relations with Israel.”

Why do far-right parties have a favourable attitude toward Israel? Subotić suggests three reasons:

• They bond over Islamophobia with Israel seen a militaristic country successfully dealing with their “Muslim threat”;
• they bond over the idea of what a nation-state should be – nationalism good, multiculturalism bad;
• In addition, cynically, it covers them against charges of antisemitism.

This new ethno-nationalism is uncompromising. Its enemies — the “globalists,” the cosmopolitans, the multinationals, the multiculturals, the diaspora, the gays, the feminists – need to be eliminated.

This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Wed 7 Sep 2022. Read the original here.