CONTENTS

A Note to the Reader

I. ANTISEMITISM: A CONVERSATION

The Perplexed

A Delusion

A Definition

A Spelling

II. A TAXONOMY OF THE ANTISEMITE

The Extremist: From the Streets to the Internet

Beyond the Extremist

Antisemitic Enablers

The Dinner Party Antisemite

The Clueless Antisemite

III. CONTEXTUALIZING ANTISEMITISM

A Cognitive Failure?

Delegitimizing Antisemitism: Jews Can’t Be Victims

Antisemitism and Racism: The Same Yet Different

A Time to Panic?

IV. “YES, BUT”: RATIONALIZING EVIL

The Ominous Case of Salman Rushdie

Pixilating the Problem

Parisian Tragedies

V. HOLOCAUST DENIAL: FROM HARD-CORE TO SOFT-CORE

A Matter of Antisemitism, Not History

Inverting Victims and Perpetrators

Branding Victims as Collaborators

De-judaizing the Holocaust

VI. THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND

Toxifying Israel

BDS: Antisemitism or Politics?

Campus Groupthink: Not-So-Safe Zones

Progressivism and Zionism: Antisemitism by Subterfuge?

Responding to the Progressive “Critique”

Myopia: Seeing Antisemitism Only on the Other Side

VII. OY VERSUS JOY: REJECTING VICTIMHOOD

Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Dental School and a Fraternity

Speaking Truth to Friends: Beyond Victimhood

Celebrating the Good in the Face of the Bad

Acknowledgments

Notes