“What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans,” comedian Norm Macdonald tweeted in 2016. “Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?”

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, the West has witnessed an explosion of antisemitism in response to the notion of Jewish self-defense. This antisemitism has predictably grown beyond the comparatively tame instances of on-campus hounding of Jewish students, healthcare workers “joking” about mistreating Jewish patients, or the display of a “F*** The Jews” sign at your local nightclub.

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