The names change, but the patterns remain: “the Jews” becomes “Israel,” old conspiracy myths become modern narratives about influence, control, and warmongering. Anyone familiar with history quickly recognizes that many of today’s slogans are not new ideas, but old hostilities in new packaging. Precisely for this reason, it is worth looking back—not to forbid any criticism of Israel, but to understand where political analysis ends and where ancient hatred begins.
From Treitschke to TikTok, we see the same enemy images
Professor Heinrich von Treitschke, one of Germany’s leading intellectuals in the late 19th century, helped shape a climate with phrases such as “The Jews are our misfortune,” paving the way for a seemingly scientific, socially accepted, and openly expressed antisemitism within German academia. Today, we are once again witnessing a wave of hostility toward the State of Israel, particularly on social networks. Intellectuals as well as influencers use patterns of argument strikingly similar to those of the pioneers of modern antisemitism, at times even imitating them word for word. Instead of using the word...
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