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Why Antisemitism Is Still the Barometer of Civilisation

The internet didn’t invent antisemitism. It just made stupid people better at it.

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Frederick Alexander
Nov 04, 2025
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Nazis are bad.

This should be the most obvious sentence ever written. Yet here we are, watching parts of the right platforming Holocaust deniers while exhausted conservatives wonder how they ended up fighting lunatics on both flanks. The woke left spent years making Jews the acceptable target of progressive rage, masquerading as “anti-Zionism”. Now the antisemitic right is trying the same trick, just with different adjectives. Note how both extremes mirror each other in the same obsessions with identity, victimhood, and moral exhibitionism.

This isn’t really a left-versus-right problem. It’s a psychological deformity among internet-addled minds whose critical faculties – if they had any to start with – have been short-circuited by tribalism and a sense of their own inadequacy.

Jews always become the target of this political psychopathy, which is why antisemitism remains such a powerful barometer of civilisational malfunction.

The pattern is grimly fam…

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