Steph Bannon: The Old and New Anti-Semitism

In her article for Aljazeera, Amy Kaplan, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a fascinating article about Steph Bannon and his notorious anti-semitism yet simultaneous support for Israel. She questions whether someone who is anti-semitic can be, by definition, in support of Israel. She writes, “To be sure, some critics of Israel do also express hostility towards Jews. But Bannon’s legitimation of a white nationalism that hates Jews but admires Israel has forced a reckoning with the single-minded meaning of the “new anti-Semitism” as criticism of Israel.”