Thread by @davidfrum

In the aftermath of the most horrific mass murder and mass rape of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, many are volunteering to provide "context" for antisemitic atrocity. (Thread)

We all seek insight. But be on guard: there is "context" that adds understanding and "context" that subtracts. There is "context" that explains and "context" that excuses. There is a "context" powered by expertise and "context" that functions as propaganda for terrorism.

So many ideologies and cultures have found ways to justify the murder of Jews.
"Jews spread the plague."
"Jews serve the landlords."
"Jews invented capitalism." "
Jews invented communism."
"Jews stabbed our army in the back."
"Jews are settlers and colonialists."

From the point of view of those justifying the killing, rape, and plunder of Jews, each of these excuses looked or looks excitingly new. From the point of view of the Jews being killed, raped, and plundered - your fresh-out-of-grad-school ideology is just the same old, same old.

Antisemites have *always* believed that Jews were aliens and settlers who should not be allowed to live where they do live.

Antisemites have *always* believed that Jews were vastly powerful and that murdering Jews was therefore necessary self-defense.

Same old, same old.

Since Karl Marx himself, many would-be revolutionaries have repurposed ancient anti-Jewish hatred as up-to-the-minute progressivism.

Same old, same old.