Noting the gradual but steady increase in anti-Semitic incidents the world over, especially in Europe, Ben Cohen argues that Jews and others must not resign themselves to it but respond forthrightly by naming its sources:
[A]nti-Semitism expresses itself these days less as a sudden cataclysm and more as an accumulation of offenses that slowly chip away at the confidence of Jewish communities. A beating here, a stabbing there, and an occasional gun attack or bombing is what accompanies the drumbeat of anti-Zionist agitation on social media and in the corridors of academia. . . .
The debate should not be about which countries Jews can safely emigrate to. It should be about what is causing anti-Semitism in the societies where they live now—and that means explicitly identifying . . . Islamists and their fellow travelers on the left and right as the root of the problem. In Europe, ironically, [people] are more willing to do that than in America, where the Obama administration is still selling the nonsense that using the word “Islamist” is an insult to all Muslims, but [even in Europe] there is still a lack of coherence about why anti-Semitism persists and what to do about it.
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