Benjamin Ginsberg, a scholar of American politics, Jewish history and higher education policy, explores recent campus protests and the “endlessly debated” line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

Israel is seen as an extension of the West and a quasi-outpost for America. That makes it a demonic target for the anti-Western and anti-American pathologies of academia and the radical left. The guilt-mongering and civilizational self-hatred that infects so much “postcolonial” theorizing coalesces around Israel.

Chanting slogans like “Globalize the Intifada,” “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free,” and “All Resistance Is Justified,” the so-called ‘Palestine Solidarity Movement’ feels no need to hide its blatant antisemitism and Jew-hatred.

We’ll never know the inner psychology or intent of these people. But what is clear is that, in practice, they were on the side of oppression. It would be absurd to argue that Hitler wasn’t antisemitic because he had Jewish supporters, or that slavery wasn’t racist because there were Black slaveholders.

Jewish Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) said she voted against the bill that would crack down on antisemitism on college campuses because, in her view, anti-Zionism is not “inherently” antisemitism,

Ilan Sinelnikov, founder and President of Students Supporting Israel (SSI), in conversation with Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post