From WSJopinion: Anti-Semitism is a form of hatred, but it’s more than that. People organize against the Jews as part of an ideological struggle, writes Ruth Wisse.
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyIsraeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid startled the Conference Against Antisemitism in Jerusalem last month by: “The anti-Semites weren’t only in the Budapest ghetto,” he said.
It was, Mr. Lapid explained, a political appeal. “We need allies,” he said. “Anti-Semitism is racism, so let’s talk to all those who oppose racism. . . . Anti-Semitism is hatred of outsiders, so let’s recruit anyone who was ever an outsider and tell them—this is your fight too.” Five days later, Ben & Jerry’s, a division of Unilever and a self-styled champion of progressive values, demonstrated Mr. Lapid’s naiveté by announcing that it will pull out of Israel because selling its ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory”—the loaded Arab term—was “inconsistent with our values.” The Arab League had launched the original pan-Arab boycott of Israel in 1945, defining any Jewish presence in Palestine as an occupation of Arab territory.
But America has changed. At the end of the 20th century, a home-grown boycott, divestment and sanctions movement became an American arm of the war against Israel, uniting a self-defined progressive coalition on the side of Arab-Muslim rejectionism. Anuradha Mittal, Ben & Jerry’s chairman and a supporter of BDS, is the initiator of today’s boycott of Israel, a country whose creation she once called a “catastrophe.
“Why, of all the gin joints in the world, did she have to walk in here?” Mr. Lapid might have asked why an American ice-cream company launched an unprovoked attack against the most progressive country in the Middle East.
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