In Response to Antisemitism, Outrage Is Not Enough

The war that began with Hamas’s savage attack on Israeli civilians last month has reached American shores in the form of a massive wave of antisemitic hatred. Even before the immediate shock of the terrorist group’s brutal surprise attack had worn off, college campuses were raging with anger not at the attackers but at the unbearable provocation of Israel’s existence, and the intolerable gall of its determination to secure its people. By the time the Israeli response began in earnest, large swaths of the broader elite culture had overcome whatever pangs of sympathy they might have felt for Hamas’s victims and fallen back into a familiar lazy narrative of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which treats the notion of a Jewish state as illegitimate, and in the process cannot help but justify the subjection of Jewish Americans to rank intimidation, if not worse.

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