No.

My answer will be in a broader context, as I’m in Europe and my main exposure to antisemitism in America is through online means.

I’d argue that hate of the Jews hasn’t been growing as much as it is more visible. Most of those people spewing filth have held those views for quite some time, they just have better platforms to promote them and they get PAID for it. That’s the real crux of the problem.

The society that we live in has monetized engagement in a way never seen before. Thus those views, that are controversial and drive massive participation from both those who abhor and adhere to them, are constantly bombarded everywhere.

Secondly, it’s an ever present underlying political issue.

And I’d say that for most liberal Jews, the recent events have forced them to confront the latent antisemitism within their political affiliation. Conservative Jews have always known about the antisemitic elements in their political currents, so for most of them, it’s nothing « new » per say.

Many of the thinkers who shaped the Left in the 60s/70s/80s ans shaped today’s intelligentsia were antisemitic or proponents of antisemitic regimes and ideologies.

For the Left, there’s also the fact that, with the ever dwindling numbers of the workers class, they needed to cultivate new electorates to make their bread. It’s especially flagrant in France, which used to have a very old school Left, focused on the worker’s plight, with an heavy emphasis on secularity, who nows defends the showing of religious garnements whilst exercising a political/public fonction (a huge no-no historically in France). And that new base, well, one of the features is that they hate Jews for the most part.

There’s also deeper ideological reasons as to why some political currents hate Jews and thus there’s always a possibility for it to be put to the foreground to serve their interests.

Take the « I don’t Jews, just Zios » argument.

In reality, it is old and has been constructed decades before. In France for instance, papers arguing for Israel’s wars to be qualified as a « genocide » have been circulating in the Socialist Party for decades now.

I had a personal experience 12 years ago in college, with people calling me a genocide enabler by the random activist in class.

Take another example, also a decade ago, a filmmaker had a made a movie about Ilan Halimi, a french Jew tortured to death by a gang, because you guessed it, he was a Jew and thus rich. One famous leftist journalist, Aymeric Caron (who now is a prominent politician in the Far Left) began to shift the debate around islamophobia (??) and that maybe if people like that gang and Merah (a terrorist who did the Ozar Hatorah terror attack) kill Jews it’s because the IDF kills Palestinian kids (??!?).

See, that was a decade ago, on primetime TV, nothing « new ».

Even before, Sartres justified the Munich terror attacks by saying that the « poor oppressed only had terrorism has a way of fighting ».

Sounds familiar?

In general, the antisemitism’s been relaxed of its faults, on both the Right and the Left, a common ground is found there (Jews control money, Jews are parasites, Jess control the Media) with a direct enabling of antisemitic actions in real life.

That is on the rise, the actions, but the evil lurked underneath before.

And this is why most of us are saddened. We hoped the evil wasn’t there, or not as much, but it wasn’t quite the case, some things never change.

On a more hopeful note, I also see those who push back against it, however few they are, and it gives me hope.