ont-size: 11pt”>• the betrayer and killer of the universal God, drainer of gentile blood, poisoner of the wells, etc (Christian antisemitism);
• the tribal anachronism, the enemy of the Age of Reason (Enlightenment antisemitism);
• the rootless cosmopolitan, everywhere the enemy of and fifth column within organic nations (Counter-Enlightenment antisemitism);
• the biologically programmed threat to all races, to be eliminated to the last child (Nazi antisemitism);
• the sons of apes and pigs who will be killed on a Day of Judgment (some forms of Islam and modern Islamic antisemitism);
• the arch-capitalist exploiter – to be hung from the lampposts as German Communist Ruth Fischer put it, latterly the arch-colonialist (Left antisemitism);
Today, in addition to all of the above (each of which is still with us), there is a new form of antisemitism which has been the consequence of the development of a Jewish State – Israel – and the demonisation of it.
‘Zionism’, properly understood, is a movement of national liberation for the Jewish people. But it is demonised today through the antisemitic ideas of the ‘The Zios’, ‘The Zionists’, ‘Global Zionism’ and ‘the all-powerful Jewish Lobby’.
Once it was ‘the Jew’ now it is ‘the Zionist’ that is – for the contemporary antisemite – malign, still controlling the world for Jewish purposes, and still string-pulling. The ‘Zionists’ power is still seen by the antisemite as virtually unlimited, still exercised through their hidden control of global media, political parties and governments, and global finance. 'They' are still uniquely evil, the modern-day Nazis.
And that world view – for that is what it is – is antisemitism ‘dressed up’ as anti-Zionism.
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