A thought experiment please:  on one side of the screen, picture the Unite the Right Rally of August 2017, in which a conglomeration of white supremacists, Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates and far-right militias marched through Charlottesville carrying Nazi and Confederate battle flags and chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” and “Blood and soil.”  Next to this reel, watch as, in response to the Israel-Hamas war, college campuses exploded with shouts of “From the River to the Sea,” “Say it loud, say it clear, we don’t want Zionists here,” and “Globalize the intifada—” during which, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, over 1200 Israeli Jews were murdered.

If you’re standing within either ideological extreme, you might claim that the antisemitism of the far right bears no resemblance to the anti-Israel protests of the far left. But you’d be wrong. And that’s because the goal of both forms of anti-Jewishness (good old fashioned Christian nationalism versus good old fashioned denial of the right of the State of........

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