A fascinating new documentary offers context about today’s antisemitism
At America’s elite universities, Jewish students huddle in locked rooms as their fellow students demand the liberation of Palestine “from the river to the sea.” In an online forum at Cornell, threats are posted to shoot up the Center for Jewish Living and kosher dining hall. On campuses across the country, posters of kidnapped Israeli hostages, many of them children, are torn from walls and shredded. Headstones in Jewish cemeteries are defaced. The iconic Second Avenue Deli on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is graffitied.
The situation overseas is even worse. In London, Paris, and even Berlin, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demand an end to Israel’s “apartheid” and “genocide” against Palestinians. Protesters in London pin photos of paragliders on their jackets as Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters in Sydney shout “gas the Jews.” A Jewish woman in France was stabbed in her apartment, a swastika spray-painted on her door.
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Judith Miller is a contributing editor of City Journal and adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow her on Twitter here.
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