Interviews

Israel's war against the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza has brought to the surface the ideological crisis gripping the West and undermining its intellectual integrity, revealing unparalleled political cowardice.

Human rights and the legitimate aspirations of so many other peoples, such as the Kurds or the Druze, are not discussed because it is impossible to assign blame to the usual scapegoat: the Jews.

The double standard applied to Palestinians compared to the rest of the world demonstrates that what is being sought is not justice, but rather the result of a fear of confronting its own problems.

Antisemitism is not simply a relic of the past but is being reshaped in modern Western societies, influenced by a shifting ideological landscape.

The West is undergoing a crisis of meaning or identity (perhaps due to globalisation, liberalism’s challenges, immigration, digital media, and cultural change), and that this crisis creates fertile ground for the resurgence or transformation of antisemitic attitudes.

Narratives (media, politics, social media) shape perceptions of Jews, Israel, identity, collective memory, and social cohesion—and how these processes are contested in the ideological crisis.

Antisemitism intersects with other ideological dynamics (e.g., nationalism, populism, identity politics, left‐wing activism, Islamism) and the West’s ideological crisis amplifies.

Julio Levit Koldorf is an expert on anti-Semitism and an occasional columnist on the subject.

One of his latest columns for The Times of Israel addresses the unscrupulous bias displayed by news outlets of the internationally prestigious BBC in the United Kingdom, which in recent months has been denounced on several occasions for these stances that place it, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, third in the world for this discrimination, surpassed only by the Iranian regime and the terrorist organization Hamas. Levit explains the mechanism of these media corporations that have found a very lucrative avenue in the use of controversial language that fuels latent prejudices in Western societies.

Julio Levit Koldorf delves into the causes of the rising tide of global antisemitism following the recent conflicts in Israel. He argues that the “death of ideologies” has exacerbated hatred against Jews, emphasizing that “Jews are the only people not allowed to win a war.”

“Antisemitism is more than just an ideology; it is an organizing principle that resurfaces in times of crisis.”

“We must pursue antisemitic agents in all their forms: economically, socially, and legally.”

“The fight against the monster of antisemitism is everyone’s responsibility.”

Julio Levit Koldorf holds a PhD in Communication and Information Sciences from the Universities of Zaragoza and Barcelona.

He was vice president of Sefarad Aragón and is the author of numerous articles, including the one published in The Jerusalem Post on December 22, 2021, entitled "Antisemitism is a mediatic pogrom," which we discussed in the interview.

In it, he develops a theory that addresses hatred of Jews by metaphorically categorizing them as a commodity (an economic term describing something that can be traded, bought, or sold).

On February 1, 2017, the Spanish Ministry of Education convened, for the first time, a conference on the educational implications of the Holocaust.

The event was attended by the Secretary of State for Education, Vocational Training, and Universities, Marcial Marín, as well as Holocaust survivor Annette Cabelli and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, Isaac Querub (who closed the event).

Julio Levit, vice president of the Sefarad Aragón association, also attended, and we spoke with him.