Scapegoating Israel and, by extension, its Jewish supporters, in this particular way is redolent of traditional antisemitic tropes about Jews of dual loyalty.

Today, antisemitism is described as a 'chameleon' coming from three directions: the extreme right (racism), the extreme left (denial of the state’s right to exist), and radical Islam.

For better or worse, Israel has become the symbolic and practical center of Jewish existence.

The article chillingly echoed a January 1939 Reichstag speech in which Hitler portended mass killings of Jews as the outcome of Germany’s inexorable march toward war with France and Great Britain.