The dramatic resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, however dastardly and vile it may be, is unfortunately hardly newsworthy at this juncture in time. Indeed, The Daily Wire has repeatedly covered the subject. And in 2015, Jeffrey Goldberg published a lengthy, eye-opening essay at The Atlantic entitled, “Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?”
The Shoah served for a while as a sort of inoculation against the return of overt Jew-hatred—but the effects of the inoculation, it is becoming clear, are wearing off. What was once impermissible is again imaginable. Memories of 6 million Jewish dead fade, and guilt becomes burdensome. (In The Eternal Anti-Semite, the writer Henryk Broder popularized the notion that “the Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”) Israel is coming to be understood not as a small country in a difficult spot whose leaders, especially lately, have (in my opinion) been making shortsighted and potentially disastrous decisions, but as a source of cosmological evil—the Jew of nations. …
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