ISRAEL IS A GIANT MACHINE FOR GENERATING ANTI-SEMITISM

by Colin Liddell

You may or may not have noticed it, but the World has a funny old way of working: For thousands of years Anti-Semitism had been a pretty well established thing (Popes, Tsars, even Winston Churchill did it), then, along came the Nazis, and suddenly, just a few short years later, everybody was ready to cut the Jews plenty of slack and even forget the occasional awkward incident. 

Yes, the Nazis' big achievement, and one they were certainly not happy about, was getting the world to -- kind of, sort of -- love the Jews. But it doesn't stop there. Israel, which was -- kind of, sort of -- founded on that upsurge of post-WII love and sympathy, and which was supposed to provide a "happy homeland" for any Jews that felt the need for it, is increasingly having something of an unintended side effect. This was already obvious long before the current shitshow. genocide in Gaza.

Here is CBN News (Christian Broadcasting News) reporting on developments back in 2021 when Gaza was off the menu:

Phone video of attacks against Jews in cities across the U.S. shared on social media shows how Palestinian supporters are bringing the war against Israel and against Jews to America's streets. 

Jews around the world know from experience that when Israel is attacked and fights back, they become even bigger targets for antisemitic violence. 

A Jewish man was savagely beaten in New York's Diamond District. Another in Times Square.  

In Los Angeles, a man is being held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after an antisemitic attack on Jewish diners. Ten cars full of Palestinian supporters rolled up and tried to attack them as they ate outside in Beverly Hills. 

Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

In Canada, a Jew was seen being chased in broad daylight.

 In Florida, a pro-Palestinian caravan displayed the words, "Hitler was right."

And in Hallandale Beach, Florida, a man yelled antisemitic remarks at a rabbi in front of a synagogue. He later returned so he could dump a bag of human feces in front of the building while shouting, "Jews should die!" 

Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center says, "The language of the caravans that are going through Jewish areas with antisemitic slogans saying 'we're going to rape your wives and children,' and things like that...there's a sense that it's open season and fair game against Jews." 

 

And this was just in America, the number one philosemitic country in the World! Imagine how bad it must be elsewhere. In fact, it's getting to the point where a lot of people are even starting to re-evaluate Adolf Hitler in what, shall we say, are disturbing ways:

The Anti-Defamation League has documented antisemitism on multiple social media platforms, including 17,000 tweets that used variations of the phrase, "Hitler was right", and 193 antisemitic incidents in the week after the fighting in the Middle East began.

The fact that Hitler was almost everybody's enemy now seems to be lost in the weirdly "woke" narrative of opposing the "colonialist," "apartheid" state of Israel.

A lot of this is driven by Israel continuing to be a "bad fit" with its Middle Eastern neighbours and thus frequently bombing them with scant regard for civilian casualties while pretending to be a humanitarian democracy. But also, we can be sure, that this fracture line and the up-until-recently dormant anti-Semitism that underlies much of Post-Christian Western society is also being played up by the usual bad actors.

I'm not going to get hung up too much on the details of Israel's chequered history, but if you think there should be a Jewish state, then Palestine 1948 seems to be a not entirely unreasonable place to put it.

It could have been put in a number of other places, of course, and in fact, Madagascar, Patagonia, Uganda, and some others were all once mentioned as possible locations at various times. Personally, I have always been in favour of putting it on former German territory, such as the old Northern half of East Prussia that is now a detached part or Russia, but obviously Palestine was the sort of compromise that would get the inherently anti-statist religious Jews on board with the project. 

But the problem with Palestine, apart from its pre-existing population, is that it has historically served as a convenient corridor for various conquering armies moving between Syria, Arabia, and Egypt. So, having placed the embryonic Jewish state in such a difficult-to-defend bit of topography, the seizure of more and more land (the West Bank and the Golan Heights, etc.) from the understandably unwelcoming locals became more and more of a necessity.

Whichever side you favoured, you could the logic of both, including that of Israel's. They kinda, sorta needed to do it. But the end result of all this is that the Israelis have now created a situation, where, if they lose a war just once, they will no longer exist; while, if they don't lose, they just end up looking like the bad guy.

In 2019, in an article titled "Winning On the Wrong Side of History," I explored this problem:

The conundrum that Israel faces is very simple. It is this: If you do colonialism and apartheid in the post-colonial and post-apartheid age, then people are going to notice. But alternatively, if you don't do colonialism and apartheid in a region where you are a tiny, hated minority then you are dead.

I then put it in a nutshell: 

In a world where Leftist values of "anti-racism" and narratives of "White privilege" dominate, Israel's realpolitik approach is going to run out of road pretty soon."

Opening up that nutshell, there's an even smaller nutshell inside:

Israel, because of when it is and where it is, has to be what it is, and what this is, is effectively a giant machine generating hatred for Jews worldwide. 

Today in 2025, we are seeing this more than ever in the situation in Gaza and the plunge in Israel's favourability ratings. What I find surprising today is that even though the World is less dominated by those Leftist values than it was five or six years ago, the paradox still exists for Israel. 

Instead of giving up land for peace, it is faced with a situation where it must continually give up popularity for immediate survival, and as it does so it weakens its long term prospects. 

But, as we see in the reports of rising anti-Semitism around the world, there is more at stake than merely Israel. Jews everywhere are increasingly at risk from the waves of anti-Semitism that the Zionist State is sending out into the World like a giant transmitter.

Note: This is a updated version of an article originally published in 2022.

___________________________________

Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

Follow on Twitter and Bluesky