Anti-Israel is new anti-Semitism

by Maayan Jaffe, Baltimore Jewish Examiner

Anti-Semitism is getting pretty scary. A friend sent me a link the other day to a rally that happened in San Francisco during Israel’s incursion into Gaza last month. There were some signs calling on Israel to pull back. Mostly, however, were signs berating and degrading Jews. There were swastikas and there were calls for Jews to go back to the ovens (a reference to the Holocaust).

I could not believe that this protest took place in America!

I am pretty passionate about Israel, so I come with my own set of biases. But I do believe that anti-Israel sentiment is the new Anti-Semitism. Israel can do no right. The terrorists, somehow, gain Americans’ sympathy … the same terrorists whom danced on 9/11.