Anti-Zionism’s shift from extremist fringe to mainstream discourse – Following the shock of the Holocaust, openly antisemitic expression was silenced, or at least muted, for a few decades, according to this author. | The Jerusalem Post

Following the shock of the Holocaust, openly antisemitic expression was silenced, or at least muted, for a few decades. Today, in most Western societies at least, antisemitism is the hatred that dare not speaks its name. Among the most lethal new, covert forms of what Norman Geras has called “alibi antisemitism” is anti-Zionism, in which the perpetrators disguise their true feelings behind the fig leaf of a respectable, even humanitarian ideology.