I don’t think that Ms. Weiss propounded a principle of equivalence here. Merely, she stated the obvious: that there is antisemitism on both the Right and the Left, albeit not the same kind of antisemitism. The antisemitism of the far Right is more traditional (if that is the word), relying mostly on age-old stereotypes and caricatures. T…
I don’t think that Ms. Weiss propounded a principle of equivalence here. Merely, she stated the obvious: that there is antisemitism on both the Right and the Left, albeit not the same kind of antisemitism. The antisemitism of the far Right is more traditional (if that is the word), relying mostly on age-old stereotypes and caricatures. That of the Left, however, is an offshoot of postmodern progressivism, tricked out in the rhetoric of anti-racism, white supremacy, colonialism and so on.
Nor is it fair to say that Ms. Weiss has charged either the Right or the Left as a whole with antisemitism. What come through clearly here is the fact that antisemitism is on the rise not exclusively but mainly on the Left. Antisemitism has next to no presence in the conservative mainstream. But it has a visible and growing presence on the Left—as the career of Ilhan Omar illustrates.
I don’t think that Ms. Weiss propounded a principle of equivalence here. Merely, she stated the obvious: that there is antisemitism on both the Right and the Left, albeit not the same kind of antisemitism. The antisemitism of the far Right is more traditional (if that is the word), relying mostly on age-old stereotypes and caricatures. That of the Left, however, is an offshoot of postmodern progressivism, tricked out in the rhetoric of anti-racism, white supremacy, colonialism and so on.
Nor is it fair to say that Ms. Weiss has charged either the Right or the Left as a whole with antisemitism. What come through clearly here is the fact that antisemitism is on the rise not exclusively but mainly on the Left. Antisemitism has next to no presence in the conservative mainstream. But it has a visible and growing presence on the Left—as the career of Ilhan Omar illustrates.