ABSTRACT
A huge shift has occurred from the twentieth to the twenty-first century in where Jews live. Antisemitism involves a belief that Jews have inherited theological and social characteristics that stamp them as a race, culture, or people apart. This chapter argues that the assault on globalization as the latest expression of American empire-building is none other than the classical attack on Zionism as the political expression of Jewish impulses toward world-domination. Nationalism as the enemy of Jews is not a phenomenon unique to French history—or for that matter, Jewish existence from South Africa to Romania. Benny Morris, leader of the Israeli "New Historians" and subject of Efraim Karsh's essay in this book, perfunctorily acknowledges Arab culpability for the 1948 war, yet reserves his main shafts for Israeli policy. The climate of antisemitism has been transformed by linking Israel as a nation with Judaism as a religion.
