When Jew Hate Doesn’t Count

Outside the White House this weekend, protesters chanted “Hezbollah, Hezbollah, kill another Zionist now!” (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
When antisemites marched through Charlottesville, America was outraged. But when calls to “kill another Zionist now” were heard outside the White House this weekend, the nation shrugged.
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Remember, folx, what’s most important is not whether someone threatens to kill Jews. What matters is who is issuing the threats.
If there’s a lesson from the orgy of hatred that we witnessed outside the White House this weekend—“Hezbollah, Hezbollah, kill another Zionist now!” the masked, keffiyeh-wearing activists shouted—it is that.
Recall August 2017,…
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