by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator

The new anti-Semitism — let’s call it Jew hate, since that is what it is, not a study of ethnography — realizes that Hitler really ruined it for Jew haters big time. If he only had been allied with America and Churchill, maybe it would be a political sacrament.

But instead he was a true war criminal, a criminal against all humanity, a Satan whose sole existence on earth led to 40-50 million deaths. His entire raison d’etre — reason for being — was to destroy Jews, to implement anti-Semitism. Along the way, he destroyed millions of American lives and millions of all others. So, no matter how much someone hates Jews, he simply cannot say in America “I happen to hate Jews because, well, I just hate all Jews. I am and anti-Semite. Y’know, like Hitler. I don’t just hate Bernie Sanders and George Soros. I also hate Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin and Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand and Albert Einstein and the whole bunch of them.”

You can’t say that after Hitler. Hitler ruined a good thing for people who found Jew-hatred a nice way to make a pretty penny: Father Charles Coughlin of the Dearborn area, Gerald L.K. Smith, William Dudley Pelley, Fritz Kuhn, Robert Edward Edmondson, the whole priesthood of those warlocks.

If prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, then Jew hatred is its oldest hobby and sport. There’s a Jew out there for everyone to hate. Bigoted landlords can rant about their Jewish tenants who ask for heat in the winter, and bigoted tenants who are eight months behind on the rent can rant about their Jewish landlord.

Jew-hating capitalists point to Trotsky and Bernie Sanders and even fabricate that non-Jewish communists like Lavrentiy Beria were Jewish. (He was born and raised Orthodox — Russian Christian Orthodox.)

Jew-hating socialists blame Milton Friedman or even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for capitalism. Anti-Semities would not hire Jews into America’s elite banking system as late as the 1960s; yet jealous and ignorant common people, even former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. George Brown, accused Jews of owning the banks.

When one-third of Christendom died during the mid-14th Century from Bubonic Plague — the Black Death — Jews throughout Europe were accused of poisoning all wells in the continent to kill them, even though Jews were dying in similar numbers, though a bit less because of religious rituals that require Jews, as a matter of Judaic law, to wash their hands before eating bread, before dipping foods, and after exiting the lavatory. It is what it is.

Because Hitler has made it uncool to say out loud “I hate all F – – – ing Jews,” and since such haters still linger among us, they have had to find new ways to identify themselves.

The Language of the Anti-Semite

After trial and error, with the benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into American higher educational institutions and Middle Eastern Studies departments, a new term that was barely used in the 1950’s entered our lexicon with all the frequency of other new terms like LOL, ROTFL, FOMO, ICYMI, microaggression, meme, AI, virtue signaling, safe space, mojo, deplatform, deep state, inclusive, and pickleball. That term?

“I am not anti-Semitic. I have nothing against Jews. My husband is a Jew. I have Jewish friends. I was just at a rally for Bernie Sanders with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m just anti-Zionist.” Anti-Zionist. Get it? Got it? Good.

The reality is that Zionism is part and parcel of the definition of Judaism. It is like saying “I am not against Jews. I am only against people who circumcise their sons (Gen. 17:10-14; Lev. 12:3), eat kosher meat (Lev. 11:1-31;  Deut. 14:1-21), and celebrate their Sabbath from eighteen minutes before sunset on Fridays until nightfall on Saturdays (Gen. 2:1-3). But I’m not anti-Semitic. I don’t have a single anti-Semitic bone in my body.”

It really is a thing. Hitler forced these poor Jew haters to find a new term for their anti-Semitism. Then they find their assemblage of useful idiots to parrot the term. “I’m not anti-Semitic. I’m just anti-Zionist.” The less sophisticated often let the cat out of the bag a bit by erroneously letting slip, “I’m not anti-Semitic. I’m just anti-Israel.” Ooops.

And the more sophisticated, realizing by now that “Anti-Zionism” and “Anti-Semitism” are identical, are test-running a new one: “I’m not anti-Semitic. I’m not even anti-Zionist. I’m just anti-Netanyahu.”  Oh, that clears it up.

The thing is, Netanyahu has been elected repeatedly by the Israeli public to be their Prime Minister. As in any true democracy, he has occasionally lost, too. In the most recent polling, a plurality of those polled said they still prefer Netanyahu for Prime Minister if elections are held now. (The strong majority also endorse continuing the Gaza struggle until Hamas surrenders and returns the hostages, and oppose an Arab country being formed west of the Jordan River. In other words, no “Two State Solution.” From the River to the Sea, only one country.)

Identifying the Anti-Semite

Even so, how are the uninitiated to tell for sure when a self-described “anti-Zionist” really is a Hitler-quality Jew hater? OK. Here goes: the Dov Fischer Guide for Ferreting out a Jew Hater Who Says He Is Only an Anti-Zionist:

When you tear up your college campus for two months protesting Israel but don’t care about Xi’s China, Maduro’s Venezuela, Putin’s Russia, or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea you’re probably an anti-Semite.

When you boycott hummus made by a company based in Astoria, Queens and Virginia because it has a Hebrew name but don’t boycott Apple or Nike products made in China, you’re probably an anti-Semite.

When you force Jews at your campus to detour the main campus but don’t do that to anyone else, you’re probably an anti-Semite.