This fall, celebrity intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates moved on from demanding reparations for America’s racial sins to comparing Israel with the Jim Crow South. “I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stronger and more intense than in Israel,” Coates writes in his new book, The Message. Sloppy and incendiary though this comparison may be, it perfectly captures the logic of today’s radicals, who have translated their hatred of America into hatred of Western nations the world over, and Israel in particular. This new, fashionable antisemitism is not just a passing fancy. It is the fruit of a pathological self-hatred on the part of Europeans, Americans, and Commonwealth citizens who position the Jewish state as a beleaguered representative of Western civilization. 

Americans outside the activist-haunted groves of academe were surprised and dismayed in the summer of 2020 to realize the sheer ubiquity of the new racialism, whose adherents vehemently disdain “whiteness” and cast “persons of color” as permanent victims. In the woke cosmology, the world is ruled by what Karl Marx called “alien powers”—sinister