As the son of a woman from Vienna who spent years 11 through 20 of her life in hiding, in prison, in Auschwitz, and finally making ammunition as a slave in Germany before being liberated by young Americans who sacrificed to free her, I am most amazed at the pompous audacity of today’s antisemites.

Modern-day antisemites pompously, audaciously, and for the majority clandestinely bear the double-edged sword of antisemitism. One side of the 3,000-year-old sword is honed to cut the Jews down, and the other sharp metal edge is unsheathed against the Jewish State. Today’s mutant rationalization of age-old antisemitism simply aims to ostracize or murder Jews and destroy their homeland. This mutation, inherited by antisemites, has always proven disastrous to those who express it somatically.