The vision of Jews being murdered in synagogues and being attacked on the streets of the US and Europe by anti-Semitic anti-Semites, by Muslim brainwashers and by hooligans from the margins of society is indeed oppressive, infuriating and requires educational, political and police mobilization to curb and eradicate anti-Semitic anti-Semitic revelations. Television, however, from its ongoing damage, its influence on the elites, seeps into the mainstream and its immunity to the countermeasures is far more dangerous.The screaming and rampant anti-Semitic in the street with a knife or firearm is easy to detect and comfortable to counteract. Jews and their country from the cathedral, above the artistic stage or in the British parliament, are more difficult to identify under the mask of the call for respect for human rights and pluralism.

Pathological hatred for the Jewish collective among those accepted as leaders of the struggle for these noble values ​​is no longer an exceptional exception. Jeremy Corbyn has maintained his position as leader of the opposition and has earned the trust of tens of millions of Britons, despite his overt identification with civilian killers, his support for even Europeans as a terrorist organization and the friendly anti-Semitic ecosystem he led in Labor. An important musical creator - Mikis Theodorakis - defined himself as anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist, explaining that Jews are the root of all evil, and that everything in the world is related to Zionism. Two Nobel laureates in the literature have expressed less explicitly in the same direction - Ginter Grass already mentioned here, and Jose Saramago who attributed Auschwitz behavior to the IDF, claiming that the Jews, acting as their oppressors, were no longer entitled to sympathy for their suffering in the past.

The left may be proud of its great contribution to the development of values ​​of universalism, pluralism and human rights and to their introduction to public discourse and the normative system of open society. The contradiction between these values ​​and the attitude of the purists close to the Jewish collective pierces the eye, and the permeation of this attitude toward the mainstream of the left is heart-wrenching. For a combination of anti-Semitism and universalism, we have been practicing for thousands of years. The combination of anti-Semitism with pluralism and human rights is the newer and more malignant one.

The refusal of the Jews to embrace the universal gospel of their time and their insistence on preserving their uniqueness did not begin with the State of Israel's adherence to its national identity, as Europeans tried to disseminate the gospel of national identity and the hallucination of universal solidarity among Westerners. Christian anti-Semitism is largely the result of the failure to compel the Jews to recognize the universal gospel of Jesus, who were punished not only for the loss of their status as God's messengers, but also for their exile.
In an attempt to force the Jews into their universal gospel, European progressives are on a familiar path. The novelty, the absurdity and the distortion of values ​​pertain to the content of the Progress gospel. This supposedly guarantees pluralism, which allows the "other" to be different from the European paradigms. It was to ensure not only the self-evident right to self-determination in the nation-state of its own nation in its historic homeland; It is also intended to secure its right to protect its national existence vis-à-vis those who are openly obliged to destroy it, by all the legitimate means used by civilians in the face of existential threats. Anti-Semitism emerges when progressives apply unique superhuman standards in the Jewish case, presenting every exception to perfection as absolute evil: whoever is not a pure angel is nothing but the Zionist devil in his embodiment.

The peculiar danger and outrageous anti-Semitism on the left is the neutralization of the antidote: that of the right could be successfully fought through the promotion of democracy, peace, pluralism and human rights. Anti-Semitism in the Progressive Left works to de-legitimize the Jewish national collective in the name of human rights and denounces it as the enemy of peace. It also manipulates the demeanor of a democratic society, which is confronted with valueless inhibitors. The purists of the Left actually support those who disqualify all their noble values ​​and learn to harness them voluntarily for their war against the Jews.

Dr. Dan Shiftan is the head of the International Security Program at the University of Haifa