The Left-Wing: A Bastion for Anti-Semitism?

According to Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, "for many in Europe and the United States, supporting Israel, or even its allies in the West, has become viewed as both dangerous and costly."

He goes on to write, "We're accustomed to associating hatred of Jews with the ridiculed Neanderthal Right of those in sheets and jackboots. But this new venom, at least in its Western form, is mostly a left-wing, and often an academic, enterprise. It's also far more insidious, given the left's moral pretensions and its influence in the prestigious media and universities.

"Renewed hatred of Jews in the Middle East-- and indifference to it in the West-- is a sort of 'post anti-Semitism.' Islamic zealots supply the old venomous hatred, while affluent, timid Westerners provide the new necessary indifference...

"The dangers of this post anti-Semitism is that...ever so insidiously, radical Islam's hatred of Jews is becoming normalized.

"The result is that the world's politicians and the media are talking seriously with those who not merely want back the West Bank, but rather want an end to Israel altogether and everyone inside it."