The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonisation strategy

Hysteria over the new Israeli government will harm the wider Jewish world

Judah Maccabeus before the Army of Nicanor; Gustav Doré, 1832

One of the favourite strategies deployed by Jew-baiters is to divide the community into Good Jews and Bad Jews.

Good Jews have politically correct, progressive opinions. Jews who don’t hold with those opinions are Bad Jews.

This distinction is helpful to Israel-bashers, who can use it to claim t…