American Jewish leader: Danger of anti-Semitic ‘spillover’ in US criticism of Israel

‘In a meeting with The Times of Israel staff Wednesday, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Executive Vice Chairman/CEO Malcolm Hoenlein sounded the alarm against rising anti-Semitism worldwide, including in the United States.

While it’s still not the popular, political anti-Semitism felt by Jews in Europe, there is a “danger of spillover,” said Hoenlein, as American criticism of Israel merges with anti-Semitic tropes, especially on campus.

There is “top-down anti-Semitism” in the US, said Hoenlein, and, much like in the United Kingdom, it is “the poison of the elite that trickles down into society.”’

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