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Over at First Things, Jacob Akey has an insightful article on how the new Anti-Semitism is different from the older variety, and what this means in terms of addressing it:

In order to build effective responses to the new anti-Semitism, the old tactics must be abandoned. Pressuring Elon Musk to visit Auschwitz or shutting down a documentarian’s Patreon, to give just two examples, might have been effective decades ago. But no longer. The moral language and norms constructed in the wake of the Holocaust are not necessarily wrong or immoral, they just don’t work anymore. There wouldn’t be a new anti-Semitism if they did.

He specifically mentions how the practice of politicians and religious figures visiting the Wailing Wall once symbolized reassurance that the Jews were safe from persecution, but that to younger generations, this appears to be a submission ritual.

One side effect of this, that is already being articulated, is that the relatively new heresy of Dispensationalism is now facing severe criticism. This is nothing new, as it is completely incompatible with not only Catholic orthodoxy, but also every Mainline Protestant faith. It is an outgrowth of the uniquely American market for innovative theology, which is how we get Calvinist Nestorians.

It is often the case that one evil will defy lawful efforts to defeat it only to fall victim to a rival evil. This is the old Nazi vs Soviet conflict. In this case, the current form of Anti-Semitism may ultimately perform the same office, because the new hotness in those circles is to claim that Dispensationalism is actually a Zionist conspiracy (of course) to subvert traditional Christianity and bring it under the control of the State of Israel.

The origin of Dispensationalism, which is well known and documented, makes a mockery of this argument, but to a certain mindset, the lack of evidence is in fact the evidence itself. It was covered up!

The more practical whackos point to the emergence of both belief system in the 19th Century. This is true, though there was lots of weird theology and philosophy emerging at the same time, like also popped up like Mormonism and of course Marxism. Alas, bringing up the latter’s emergence probably isn’t helpful because all that does is tie it into the International Jewish Bolshevik Conspiracy thing. Once that happens, you get the “clear line” from Dispensationalism to Mustache Man, which in this crowd is a feature rather then a bug.

I have to admit, I am tempted to pursue this line simply for the sake of pitting absurdity against absurdity, but someone might mistakenly think I am serious.

However, there are no doubt plenty of zealous true believers who are already running with this. For my part I’ll continue to spread the truth about both, and hopefully some of it will get through.