A Jewish Response
- Julio Levit Koldorf
- Nov 14, 2023
- 1 min read
— Times of Israel
Dr. Julio Levit Koldorf reflects on a 2016 peace seminar he attended, which he describes as emblematic of the deep-rooted antisemitic bias that often underpins Western discourse about Israel. He recounts how the event—filled with anti-Israel propaganda—mirrored a broader global pattern of distortion and hostility toward Jews.
Levit Koldorf links that experience to the contemporary resurgence of antisemitism following Hamas’s atrocities against Israeli civilians, lamenting the world’s moral inversion in which Jewish suffering is minimized and Israel is vilified. He highlights how misinformation—such as false reports about the Gaza hospital explosion—spreads through media and academia, fueling anti-Jewish hatred while other global crises fade from public concern.
He argues that antisemitism today functions as a totalizing ideological system capable of adapting across political movements and justifying hatred through the illusion of moral righteousness.
Concluding, Levit Koldorf calls for a forceful, coordinated Jewish response: to politically, legally, and reputationally pursue antisemitic actors; to reclaim control over Jewish self-representation in the face of global hostility.