We have now been living with, or arguably even under, the ideology called “social justice” or “wokeness” for a decade. Over the past few weeks, however, many decent people who previously downplayed the seriousness of the problem have noticed something others among us have worried about for a long time, namely that the woker the coalition that makes up the Left gets, the less it likes Jews.

For some, it might seem surprising that an ideology that bills itself as especially attuned to the furtherance of historically aggrieved minorities and organized against racial hatreds would fail so badly around antisemitism. New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman spoke for many on his side of the aisle when he memorably tweeted in 2019: “There are three things in life that are certain: death, taxes (unless you’re Donald Trump), and persistence of antisemitism. But only one brand of antisemitism scares me — and it’s not on the left.”