The mental level is that Jewish struggling, together with the epochs of open anti-Semitism, isn’t any extra distinctive than different kinds of struggling. And, proportionally, Palestinian struggling is now higher. On this new view, the Palestinians are the actual Jews, beleaguered folks traditionally abused by the highly effective, so how can these defending Palestinians towards their gross and evil oppressers — who, in a perfect consequence, many Palestinians hope to see eradicated — be anti-Semitic? This now seems to be an affordable sufficient opinion among the many world’s new fair-minded — in addition to bewildering in its notion of historical past to anybody who’s Jewish (or, maybe, Jewish of a sure age).