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July 3, 2018

The Deep Connection between Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism

Hobbyhorses of the left and right.

Taking as their point of departure a graffito in a bohemian neighborhood of Leipzig reading “Fick Israel—Fick die U.S.A.”—a slogan that needs no translation—Andrei Markovits and Heiko Beyer argue that hatred of the U.S. and hatred of Jews (sometimes in the polite form of hatred of Israel) are not only deeply interconnected for the far left and far right today but have been so since the 19th century. They write:

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