Published May 9, 2024
With shocking displays of anti-Semitism unfolding on college campuses across America in recent weeks, it is easy for conservatives to feel a sense of moral superiority. Progressives, it seems, are the real bigots. But we would be foolish to ignore the rot in our own ranks. In times of political polarization, the far right and far left sometimes appear to come full circle, mimicking one another even as they define themselves in opposition to one another. So it is today.
To be sure, it is hard to get a handle on the precise scope of the problem. At times, it has spilled over into the public eye, as when the vocal Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes met with President Trump in November 2022, or when Ron DeSantis’s campaign found itself in hot water over a campaign video accused of using neo-Nazi symbolism. More often, though, it lurks in the shadowy world of Twitter memes and pseudonymous Substacks. Many conservative pastors, however, report encountering various forms of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial in their churches, and when evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson (hardly known as a liberal) dared call out this phenomenon, it provoked a vitriolic backlash.
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