It Was Imported – Express Delivery from the Left, with an Academic Kosher Stamp

There’s a comforting myth making the rounds in polite Western society:
That the “new antisemitism” is some rogue mutation of the American right.
A side effect of populism.
A MAGA rash.
A Tucker Carlson fever dream.

It’s a neat story.
It absolves the people who tell it.
And like most neat stories in politics-it’s largely false.

The uncomfortable truth is this:
The ideological infrastructure of modern antisemitism was not built on the right. It was engineered, funded, legitimized, and mass-produced on the left.

And then-only then-did it spread.

Antisemitism 2.0: Same Hatred, Better Branding

The old antisemitism was crude.
It shouted.
It wore boots.
It smelled like cheap beer and bad history.

The new antisemitism?
It’s vegan.
It has pronouns.
It comes with footnotes.

It no longer says “Jews control the world.”
That would be embarrassing.

Instead, it says:

• “Zionists control the narrative.”
• “Israel is a settler-colonial project.”
• “Jewish safety must not come at the expense of marginalized voices.”

Same accusation.
Same target.
Different font.

Academia: Where Hate Learned to Speak Fluent Theory

This didn’t start on YouTube.
It started in lecture halls.

In universities where:

• Marx was rebranded as moral clarity,
• Power replaced truth,
• And identity replaced evidence.

Here, Jews were quietly reclassified-not as a people, but as a problem.

White-adjacent.
Privileged.
Colonial by default.

Zionism was stripped of its historical context and reduced to a sin-one that required constant public repentance.

And once antisemitism received academic approval, it no longer needed to hide.

It could wear tweed.

Exporting the Virus: From Campus to Culture

From academia, the ideology moved outward:

• Into NGOs.
• Into newsrooms.
• Into activist spaces.
• Into “human rights” organizations that seem obsessively concerned with only one country on Earth.

 

Israel became the world’s emotional punching bag.
Jews became acceptable collateral damage.

And anyone who objected was told:
“This isn’t about Jews. It’s about justice.”

A sentence that should immediately raise alarms-because historically, it always has.

The Right Didn’t Invent It-It Inherited It

Yes, figures on the American right sometimes echo antisemitic tropes today.

But they didn’t invent them.

They absorbed a language already normalized:

• “Global elites”
• “Dual loyalties”
• “Lobby control”

These phrases didn’t come from neo-Nazi basements.
They came pre-sanitized-washed, ironed, and approved by progressive discourse.

The left created the intellectual permission structure.
The right, in some cases, simply walked through the open door.

And Israel? Israel Is the Canary in the Coal Mine

Israel isn’t hated because it’s strong.
Or because it’s flawed.
Or even because it’s at war.

Israel is hated because it disproves a narrative:
That Jews are supposed to be passive.
Stateless.
Morally useful only when dead.

A sovereign Jewish state-with an army, borders, and unapologetic self-defense-breaks the script.

So it must be delegitimized.
Demonized.
Eventually erased.

All in the name of “progress.”

Why This Matters to the West (Whether It Admits It or Not)

This isn’t just a Jewish problem.
It’s a Western one.

Because antisemitism is never the final stop-it’s the warning sign.

When a society learns to excuse hatred if it’s phrased correctly,
When it learns that morality is about who speaks, not what’s true,
When it decides that violence is acceptable if the victim is sufficiently unfashionable-

That society isn’t becoming more just.
It’s becoming more dangerous.

Final Thought: You Don’t Fight a Virus by Blaming the Fever

If the West wants to confront the “new antisemitism,” it needs to stop pretending it’s an accident of the right.

It isn’t.

It’s a product.
Designed by intellectuals.
Marketed by activists.
Protected by institutions.
And excused by people who know better-but prefer comfort to courage.

And until that’s acknowledged, don’t be surprised when the symptoms keep spreading.

History, after all, has seen this movie before.
Only the costumes have changed.