Pity the Poor Anti-Semite
Anti-Semitism is an ancient scourge that has destroyed all who have
become infected with it throughout history. It is a deadly illness of
the mind which contains the nidus of self-destruction within its
genetic code.

Most of us in the West have long recognized the danger of
anti-Semitism. Victor Davis Hanson recently pointed out that it is
symptomatic of totalitarian societies which need to deflect the blame
for their failures onto others:

Anti-Semitism, of course, is the mother's milk of fascism. It is
always, they say, a small group of Jews — whether shadowy cabinet
advisers and international bankers of the 1930s or the manipulative
neoconservatives and Israeli leadership of the present — who alone
stir up the trouble.

The beauty of anti-Semitism is that the Jews have a long tradition of
being small in number yet relatively visible in the societies in which
they lived. Thus, they serve as the perfect objects on which to
project ambivalently held traits. For example, the leading
anti-Semites of the world are now found in the Arab world. Their
projection of all evil traits onto the Jews is a thing of beauty in
its incoherent hatred. Pamela comments on the prevalence in the Arab
world of the most noxious cartoons slandering Jews with the old
time-worn and time tested blood libel first made popular int eh middle
ages: