The October 7 attacks and the war in Gaza have been followed by a wave of lies and distortions about Jews, many recycling the oldest smear of all: that they form a secret, malevolent cabal.
Sir Simon Schama, one of Britain’s foremost historians, sets out to explain why. Antisemitism, he shows, has survived for thousands of years by reinventing itself, and in its latest form Jews and Israel have become a screen onto which today’s fears and obsessions are projected. Unsparing and deeply felt, this essay is a call to pay attention.
