They Are Lying to You About Antisemitism. Here Is the Truth.

They have stolen a word. They have taken a term freighted with the unimaginable weight of history’s greatest crime and hollowed it out, turning it into a cheap political cudgel. A word that should be a shield to protect a people has been twisted into a gag to silence the conscientious, to crush dissent, and to protect a brutal state from accountability. The charge of “antisemitism” is no longer a defense against hatred. It has become the establishment’s favorite weapon to smear its enemies.

And those enemies, it seems, are anyone who dares to stand for justice. Anyone who dares to speak for the oppressed. Anyone who dares to criticize the state of Israel.

The Great Deception: Manufacturing a Crisis on The Left

Let's be clear about the lie they are selling you. They want you to believe that the primary source of antisemitism today springs from the political left—from students on campus, from human rights activists, and from anyone who supports the Palestinian cause. They find a solitary voice, a “European Jewish community leader,” and amplify his words to give this lie a credible face, a soundbite to be repeated endlessly until it feels like truth. It is a cynical and deliberate strategy to fracture solidarity and to paint the movement for human rights as a cesspool of bigotry.

Look at the recent hysteria over the Glastonbury Festival. Young people, filled with a passionate desire to protest military violence, chanted “Death to the IDF.” Was it crude? Perhaps. Was it a call for the genocide of the Jewish people? Absolutely not. It was a cry of rage against a specific military force, the Israel Defense Forces, an army currently engaged in what many international legal experts are calling a plausible genocide. Yet institutions like the BBC, abandoning all pretense of impartiality, broadcast this as a seismic event of Jew-hatred. The New York Times, acting less like a newspaper and more like a PR firm for a foreign government, splashes it across its pages. They deliberately conflate an army with an entire people, a state with an entire faith. This is not journalism; it is pro-Israel advocacy masquerading as news, and its goal is to make you afraid to speak.

This is a carefully constructed fantasy, a moral panic designed to distract you from where the real, historical, and murderous threat of antisemitism has always lived: the far-right.

The Awful Truth: A Weapon to Shield Apartheid

Here is the truth that has become so dangerous to speak: the charge of antisemitism has been systematically weaponized to provide diplomatic and moral cover for the Israeli government. It is the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for a state that stands accused of apartheid, of ethnic cleansing, and of war crimes. Any politician who questions military aid, any academic who documents human rights abuses, any student who joins a protest—they are all immediately hit with the same branding iron. Antisemite.

It is a tactic as brilliant as it is morally bankrupt. It exploits the trauma of the Holocaust to silence debate about the injustices of the present. It forces a false choice: either you stand in lockstep with the policies of the Israeli government, or you are a bigot. There is no room for nuance. There is no room for principled opposition to state violence. As outlets like Mondoweiss have rightly pointed out, this is a conscious political project. The goal is not to protect Jewish people. The goal is to protect Israel from criticism.

How profoundly disappointing it is to see a word that signifies such deep historical pain be cheapened in this way. We had hoped the world would see the difference between hating a people and holding a government to account. But that hope has been dashed against the rocks of political expediency.

The Sickening Hypocrisy: Coddling Fascists, Condemning Activists

Now, let us look at the moral contrast. On one hand, you have the entire political and media establishment losing its mind over a chant at a music festival. On the other hand, you have a far-right political party in Europe—a party with direct lineage to Nazi collaborators—issuing a cynical, pre-election “apology” for its fascist past, and being quietly welcomed back into the fold.

This is not just hypocrisy; it is a moral inversion. It is a sign of a political class that is utterly bankrupt. They strain at the gnat of a protest chant while swallowing the camel of genuine, rising fascism. They scream about supposed “left-wing antisemitism” because it is a useful tool to beat their political opponents. But they whisper when it comes to the far-right, because, increasingly, those are their allies. They share a common enemy: the left, minorities, and the very idea of universal human rights.

Let’s be honest. Who poses a greater threat to Jewish people? A student activist demanding a ceasefire? Or the political heirs of the men who rounded up Jews for the death camps? The answer is obvious. And the fact that our leaders are focused on the former while rehabilitating the latter is an unforgivable betrayal.

The Final Danger: Erasing Real Antisemitism

Here is the cold, strategic reality of what this weaponization of antisemitism will lead to. By crying “wolf” at every protest, at every academic paper, at every criticism of Israel, they are rendering the word meaningless. They are soiling the alarm bell, wearing it out through constant, fraudulent use.

When real, violent, Jew-hating antisemitism continues its terrifying resurgence on the far-right—and it is—how will we sound the alarm? The word will have been devalued. The public will have been conditioned to see it as nothing more than a political smear. In their frantic effort to shield a single state from accountability, they are stripping away the very shield that protects Jewish communities everywhere.

This is the ultimate, tragic irony. In the name of protecting a self-proclaimed Jewish state, they are creating the conditions where actual antisemitism can fester and grow, unnoticed and unopposed. This is not just a strategic error; it is a catastrophe in the making, and it is a profound insult to the memory of every victim of the real thing.

This fight is not about condoning hatred. It is about rescuing a sacred concept from the cynical politicians and propagandists who have turned it into a weapon. It’s about insisting that the fight against antisemitism must never be used as an excuse to perpetrate injustice against another people.

The choice is clear. So what can you do?

• Refuse the lie. When you hear someone conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, correct them. Do not let this poisonous equation stand unchallenged.
• Speak with precision. Support the Palestinian cause. Criticize the Israeli government. Denounce the IDF’s actions. And do it all while making it clear your fight is against state policy, not against a people.
• Follow the real threat. Pay attention to the rise of the far-right in your country and across the world. They are the historical and present-day danger. Do not be distracted by the establishment’s convenient scapegoats.
• Share this truth. Your silence is their victory. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for clarity and justice. Use it now.