Over the past 2,500 years, antisemitism has been one of the world’s most resilient scourges, erupting spasmodically but never going away, and spanning much of the globe. This virus has mutated into a mélange of tribal turf wars, religious jealousy, economic envy and pure, abstract, intellectual hatred, attracting adherents who may never have met a Jew in their lives. And it is again on the rise, although the degree is subject to dispute.
If indeed antisemitism is spreading like an infectious toxin, though, how Jewish communities seek to treat it can also cause damage to those communities’ health.
