Anti-Semitism is profoundly corrosive of Western values and interests. By Alexander Downer in The Telegraph.

There a line between demonstrators outside the Sydney Opera House chanting “Gas the Jews” and the massacre on Bondi Beach. The protestors chanting “globalise the intifada” are literally calling for the death of all Jews.

Few, if any, Jewish gatherings can now take place without security: who else in our societies faces this because of their race? …

As the US commentator Park MacDougald has said, it’s not just about people disliking Jews in the way they might dislike, say, Mexicans.

Anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory about how the world works. You think you live in a democracy, it runs, but actually there is this secret invisible system of Jewish power that rules the world through the banking system, the media and the Israel lobby.

Russia and China:

In the United States, there are clear links, including funding, between anti-Israel and anti-Semitic groups and nations such as China and Russia. The aim is to undermine the cohesion of the West and undermine Western legitimacy, both internally and externally: to push the argument that Western power serves the interests of Israel, the Zionists and the Jews rather than the interests of ordinary citizens. You do not have to defeat the West in open confrontation if you can divide it and leave it in a state of self-doubt.