Someone in Europe appears to have finally understood the most pernicious aspect of 21st century antisemitism -- the congenital inability of most of its practitioners to understand the fact of their antisemitism.  From Haaretz:

Robin Shepherd is not the first person to try and define the world's oldest hatred, but he is perhaps one of the most unlikely. The senior research fellow at the Chatham House think tank in London has no significant connection to the Jewish people, and his visit to Israel last week was only his second. But he still believes his decision to spend a year researching the new European anti-Semitism is perfectly relevant for any serious observer of international affairs.

Shepherd is only beginning what he expects to be a year of research on the subject, probably culminating in a book, but he already has a number of basic insights. The first is a clear differentiation between the old and new European anti-Semites, or as he puts it, "subjective" and "objective" anti-Semitism.

"Subjective anti-Semites basically hate Jews and therefore usually hate the Jewish state," he says. "There are people in Europe who are hostile to Jews, but it's only on the fringes, in the far right and far left..."

"A much bigger problem is the objective anti-Semitism, the hatred of the State of Israel," he says. "Since Israel is a Jewish state, and if you use false analogies between Israel and Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany, you are comparing them with Jews and you are therefore engaged in anti-Semitism."

Shepherd gives a particularly salient example of the phenomenon in question

"A lot of people will defend themselves by saying that their motivation is the cause of the Palestinians. Well, if you wanted to express your disapproval of Robert Mugabe's regime by highlighting his violation of human rights and the way he's destroying the country, then you could say your motivation is human rights, but if you expressed your objection with a cartoon of Mugabe as a gorilla jumping up and down on blood-soaked bananas, that kind of imagery of black people is pure racist. But it's the kind of imagery being used against Israel."

Well worth reading the whole thing, although Shepherd does claim that Noam Chomsky is not a self-hating Jew, which is patent balderdash.  Nonetheless, we can forgive a lapse or too when a problematic truth is finally being spoken.