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Julio Levit Koldorf

Julio Levit Koldorf

Julio Levit Koldorf is a scholar specializing in communication and politics with a focus on political antisemitism. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valencia, the University of Zaragoza and Oxford University.

It is the consequence of a long drift—one that has hollowed out the universal claims of human rights and replaced them with ideological loyalty tests.
Blaming Israel offers moral gratification with close to no existential discomfort. It is safe, culturally approved and symbolically rich.
Jews are accused not because of what they do but because of what they represent: the last safe repository of universal blame.
The West’s failure to confront Islamist radicalization will inevitably trigger a nativist backlash, with Jews again caught in the crossfire.
This is not a diplomatic achievement; it is a pacifier tossed to angry mobs waving foreign symbols in foreign tongues.
For too long, the Jewish people have relied on the assumption that facts and history would speak for themselves. This has been a fatal error.