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When Jew Hate Doesn’t Count
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.
By Peter Savodnik
06.10.24 — U.S. Politics
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When Jew Hate Doesn’t Count

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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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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