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Why can the left never see their own antisemitism?

Why can the left never see their own antisemitism?

Jewish exceptionalism drives Jew-haters wild, and even more so on the left

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Melanie Phillips
Feb 07, 2021
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In his new book Jews Don’t Count, David Baddiel observes that people on the left don’t treat the problem of antisemitism on the same level as prejudices over race, sexuality or gender.

I personally started to detect a double standard over antisemitism in the 1980s, when I wrote that antisemitism had become “the prejudice that dare not speak its name”.

Thi…

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