https://nypost.com/2024/08/19/opinion/pro-hamas-protesters-are-heirs-to-decades-of-anti-west-bile/
Oct. 7 is widely recognized as “the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust,” yet some Americans — notably the tens of thousands marching on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week — are celebrating the cloning of Nazism.
Last century, the United States led the fight against those massacring the Jews. Yet today’s college students are cheering on Hitler’s successors.
Many American Jews were “shocked, but not surprised” when antisemitism shot up virulently here on Oct. 8.
Campuses that should have protested the mass murder, rape, infanticide, torture, beheading and kidnapping of peaceful civilians rallied instead against Israel, home to almost half of the Jews left in the world.
It was the same antisemitism we have seen for more than a century — so no surprise — but a shock to many when the rhetoric came from the political left.
In the early 20th century, fascists won American adherents by appealing to ultra-nationalism, the same impulse that brought Hitler to power and made him chancellor of Germany in 1933.
Antisemitism, an anti-liberal movement conceived in the 1870s, accused Jews of exploiting emancipation and citizenship to “conquer Germany from within.”