Contemporary Antisemitism: From Blog Posts to Book
The purpose of “Contemporary Antisemitism” and these blog posts is to combine them into a published book entitled Safe Schools for Jewish Students: An Educator’s Guide to Preventing Antisemitism and Strengthening Belonging.
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Chapter 2 – Contemporary Antisemitism
Contemporary Antisemitism: From Hate to Genocide
Such denial of the Holocaust discussed in the previous section is reminiscent of the devastating silence across the globe when, on October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists breached into Israel and as well as killing and butchering as many Jews as they could, many of them raped Israeli women. Though the evidence of rape was abundant—women’s accounts, captured Hamas fighters’ confessions, video footage—the world either ignored or doubted that the rapes occurred.
The “Me Too” movement in 2006 was meant to encourage everyone to believe any woman who says she has been raped. The October 7th massacre seemed to generate a “Me Too Unless You’re a Jew” movement.
Though many reports have come to light, the requirement to circumvent the traditional routes of negligent and biased human rights organizations and UN committees that ought to be investigating the premeditation and deployment of sexual violence came to fruition in July, 2025 in the Dinah Project report, “A Quest for Justice.”
Across the globe, leaders of human rights movements spread a modern blood libel against the Jews, claiming Israel was committing genocide. Their defense was that they weren’t accusing Jews, they were only accusing Israel. Yet while over twenty percent of Israelis are Muslims, many of whom have served in the Israeli army, no mosques were vandalized over the war in Gaza, only synagogues, college Hillels, and other Jewish buildings.
By examining the “Ten Stages of Genocide,” one can see—as will be done in a later chapter—how Hamas’ attack against Israel qualifies as an attempted genocide as opposed to Israel’s response.
The conspiracies of Jews controlling the media, world finances, and politics resurfaced, echoing the conspiracy of Jews wanting to take over the world, as Hitler and his antisemitic predecessors asserted.
Educators and other intellectuals redefined Zionism—the belief that Jews have a right to self-determine in their ancestral homeland—as an evil ideology, again giving people permission to hate Jews since nearly all Jews are Zionists.
To say, “I am not against the Jews, I’m only against the Zionist movement,” is as absurd as saying, “I’m not against African-Americans, I’m only against the Black Lives Matter movement.”
It is important to note that the criticism of any government’s policies, including Israel’s, is vital to the improvement of a country. As Rabbi Sacks put it:
“I was recently talking to some schoolchildren, and they asked me: is criticizing Israel antisemitism? I said ‘No’ and I explained the difference. I asked them, ‘Do you believe you have a right to criticize the British government?’ They all put up their hands. Then I asked, ‘Which of you believes that Britain has no right to exist?’ No one put up their hands. ‘Now you know the difference,’ I said, and they all did.”
—Rabbi Sacks, September 27, 2016 at the European Parliament.
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Ezra Barany loves riveting readers with Jewish thrillers. His first two books in The Torah Codes series were award-winning international bestsellers. In his free time, he has eye-opening discussions on the art of writing novels with his wife and book coach Beth Barany. A high school physics teacher, Ezra lives in Oakland with his beloved wife and two cats working on the next book. Ezra, not the cats.
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