“Antisemitism Without Antisemites”

The concept of “anti-Semitism without Jews” is not new. It was, indeed, a defining characteristic of the old East European Soviet bloc, which remained virulently anti-Semitic long after its Jewish population had been destroyed in the Holocaust. But no sooner had we got our head around the concept of “anti-Semitism without Jews” than the new anti-Semitism has produced a new concept: “Anti-Semitism without Anti-Semites.”
The father of the phrase is the German writer Henryk Broder, and the circumstances of its birth was, appropriately, the interior committee of the German Bundestag, to which Broder was giving evidence.
The supposedly non-existent anti-Semites are the phalanx of “progressive” academics, journalists and politicians who express unlimited hatred of Israel and would boycott the state out of existence but vehemently reject the suggestion that they are anti-Semitic. Polite, sophisticated, educated, cultured Europeans have altered their vocabulary. Today they speak of “Zionists” …
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