Antisemitism is hardly a novelty on the left. Back in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was responsible for first spreading the libel that “Zionism equals racism.” In truth, Zionism – once the conviction that the Jewish people has a right to self-determination within some part of the ancient Jewish homeland – is today merely the conviction that Israel has a right to continue to exist.

The leftist ideology that has become dominant on campuses today, sometimes called “wokeism,” adds a twist that is racialist and arguably racist: that all those deemed (by the woke) as “people of color” are oppressed and entitled to commit any and all atrocities to “resist” those deemed (by the woke) as “White.”

This is a mirror image of the Nazis’ belief that the German nation, “the Aryan man,” and white people were oppressed, and that the solution was what they called a “racial revolution.” ...

Today, the woke decree that Jews – including black-skinned Jews from Ethiopia and brown-skinned Jews from Yemen – are white enough to deserve denunciation as “settler-colonists,” even in the Judean Hills and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. They claim every inch of Israel is a colony. Of what foreign empire, they don’t say.

Much of the media have been calling the campus demonstrations “pro-Palestinian” but, from the start, they have in fact been anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish, and pro-Hamas. Indeed, many demonstrators proudly proclaim: “We are Hamas!”