How Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be #Pro-Israel — and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time
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Yet though it would seem impossible to hate Jews but love the Jewish state, these two viewpoints are not as contradictory as they appear.
There is actually “little correlation” between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, according Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. To be sure, anti-Semitism is found among the anti-Zionist left. But it is also found among the Zionist right.
“Many people who dislike Jews like Israel and many people who are critical toward Israel are affectionate toward Jews,” said Cohen.
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This duality is a central component of “Trumpism,” said Yael Sternhell, a Tel Aviv University professor of history and American studies.