Several strands of leftist ideology converge to make Jews and Israel the perfect objects of believers' hatred—even as they are intrinsically the objects of Islamists' hatred. First, as we saw in chapter thirteen, leftism, like Islamism, detests modernity, individual freedom, and any value placed on individual human life, notions with which Jews are strongly identified. Jewish values are most strongly represented by Israel, a tiny nation that refuses to be extinguished despite myriad attempts to drown it in violence and terror. Representing the triumph of the human spirit, Israel has come to symbolize all that is despised by Islamists and leftists alike.
In addition, Jews are seen as being synonymous with the oppressive structures of corporate capitalism and globalization, and Israel is both the outpost of Western values in the Middle East and an ally of the United States in the terror war. While Islamists hate America, in part, for supporting Israel, leftists hate Israel for its alliance with the United States—and for sharing its principal values. This is why anti-Semitism has become so conveniently enmeshed with anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-globalization.
(Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror [Los Angeles: WND Books, 2009], 211 [italics in original; endnote omitted])
Note from KBJ: Anti-semitism is endemic in academia.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 