Dr. Sara Hirschhorn, a JPPI fellow, was interviewed for an extensive Wall Street Journal article regarding the surge in hostility against Jews in Western countries.
“In a globalized world, there is a sense among Jews that, unlike the past, there is no far-flung land to escape to,” said Hirschhorn. “It seems for Jews that there is a calculus of the lesser of evils. Jews no longer have any one safe harbor—it is now a question of relative safety in a dangerous world.”
Hirschhorn also points to a troubling shift in the nature of antisemitism. Traditional right-wing antisemitism, she notes, has been reinvigorated in parts of the West amid economic disruption. At the same time, it has been joined by what she describes as a new and virulent strain of “anti-Zionist antisemitism.”
While there may have been some efforts to make Jew-hatred more unpalatable in polite society, Hirschhorn said, “open and even violent hatred toward ‘Zionism,’ ‘Zios,’ ‘Israel’ ‘Israelis’, and ‘Supporters of Israel’ has been given a new carte blanche.”
For the full article in the Wall Street Journal, click here.