Does Israel Cause Anti-Semitism, or Does Anti-Semitism Cause Hatred of Israel?

The answer is undoubtedly the latter, according to Eve Garrard. Pointing to Israel as the root cause of anti-Semitism, she writes, is like pointing to “immigration as the root cause of all social unrest in the UK”: a way of ensuring “that the blame for the problem lands exactly where the observer has already decided it belongs.” Rather, anti-Semitism is better understood as a deep-seated tool for explaining every problem under the sun: