Carl Swanson of New York magazine has a brief Q&A with French celebrity intellectual (and Jew) Bernard-Henri Lévy on the rebranding of anti-Semitism. What caused you to turn to explicitly discussing anti-Semitism?
Its return. And a relatively new rhetoric. Anti-Semitism, to pass under the radar, to become again undetectable, to be in a position to operate without being accused of being anti-Semitism, must draw from three sources: anti-Zionism, the denial of the Holocaust, and victim competition. It must articulate the following discourse: “The Jews are a detestable people who, firstly, invented and exaggerated their own martyring”—which is denial of the Holocaust; secondly, “They overshadowed, in doing so, the martyring of other people”—which is victim competition; and, thirdly, “They accomplished this crime because they are obsessed with the defense of an assassin state”—which is anti-Zionism.
Read the full Q&A.
Lévy comes to the Y on March 5 to discuss Israel, Jewish Values and the New Global Anti-Semitism.
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