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July 1, 2021

Left-Wing Critics of Israel Are Using the Language of David Duke and the Hitler Youth

The ugly term “Jewish supremacy.”

Earlier this year, the Israeli organization B’tselem issued a report accusing the Jewish state of implementing “a regime of Jewish supremacy.” The same phrase has appeared recently in a condemnation of Israel written by a group of Jewish-studies professors, an op-ed in a Connecticut news outlet, and a report from a scholar at the prestigious Brookings institution. Gil Troy notes the history of this ugly locution:

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