ABSTRACT
It has become a recurrent truism that matters regarding Jews, Israel, and Zionism acquire a worldwide resonance that is out of proportion to their intrinsic news value. While Arabs or Muslims or other adepts of dictatorial and totalitarian regimes have no compunctions of being openly anti-Semitic, and they use interchangeably Jews, Zionists, and Israelis, the hidden anti-Semites in the West adopt their language to the jargon which condemns Israel. Every anti-Semite who harshly criticizes Israel to the point of turning the Jewish state into the Jew among states, claims his right to criticism, it is often difficult to draw the line between one and the other. Some Westerners who still entertain their old anti-Semitic stereotypes towards the Jews but cannot articulate them openly as of old, turn against Zionism and Israel as an oblique way to compensate for the fashionable restraint from whipping the Jews in the public square.
