https://www.timesofisrael.com/deborah-lipstadt-is-israel-really-the-cause-of-surging-antisemitism/
In a no-holds-barred conversation, Lipstadt assesses the nature of contemporary Jew-hatred and weighs in on whether Israel’s actions indeed may be contributing to its rise.
We hear her thoughts on whether “anti-Zionism” is a new form of antisemitism or its own distinct hatred and what the proverbial Venn diagram looks like.
But to start with, we return to 1967, when university student Lipstadt was here in Jerusalem during the Six Day War and hear her firsthand account of life in the newly unified capital.
Bottom line: the world loves weak Jews. Before the war, it was the Iron Dome that was a cause of Jew hatred because it prevented Jewish deaths. The folks who wanted to see Ashkelon and Sderot in flames were continually disappointed. Israel is hated because it refuses to knuckle under to the pressure to destroy itself. Jews are hated because they refuse to hide in a corner and beg for protection.
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