Mick Hartley

The article, a review of Mark Mazower’s book On Antisemitism, does not start well:

In April 2024, six months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza….

That quote in full, in the final paragraph:

The irony of contemporary antisemitism is that its increasingly contradictory, “smokescreen” quality exposes, perhaps more clearly than ever before, that antisemitism has never really been about the Jews: it has always been a discourse, the object of which is history and power itself. While Jews will remain its victims—in stochastic hate crimes, university firings, arrests by German and American police—Palestine and Palestinians are now its principal targets, along with U.S. civil society itself. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno got it right already in 1947: “the victims are interchangeable.” If we are puzzled by this contradiction, it is only because “the anti-Semitic psychology has largely been replaced by mere acceptance of the whole fascist ticket.”

So now Palestinians are the principal targets of antisemitism. Well of course. So the term loses all meaning, and Jews once again get erased.