| Nothing to do with Chomsky, but I do think anti-semitism (or, as G.Adams correctly pointed out, anti-Jew would be the better term) is "on the rise" outside of the US. I don't think it's a totally irrational thing, so to speak however;
People outside of the US are becoming more and more anti-Israel due to its horrible policies (and dragging the US with it, hence alot of anti-US sentiment in Europe and the Arab world), and when people point this out publically, they get smears of "anti-semite," "hater," and of course: "nazi." The smearing more often than not doesn't come from Israel, but from Jewish organisations in the respective places. So the people smeared who most probably hadn't even really thought about Jews as a group of people (outside Israel), get angry at Jews instead of Israel as a nation. |