Open, violent Jew-hatred exposes the antisemitism of anti-Zionism

All those self-righteous anti-Israel protests of the last two years, on campuses and in the streets, predictably pollinated the poisonous fruit of ugly antisemitic violence now shooting up everywhere.

In just the last few days, multiple alarming episodes of open Jew-hatred have shocked New York City.

Saturday night in a tony West Village eatery, a Jewish woman asked a bigot to cool it with his noisy antisemitic language. He screamed filthy slurs at her, calling her an “ugly f–king Zionist,” insisting, “we will rid this country of f–king you.”

Monday night in Brooklyn, a pair of nasty bigots harassed Hanukkah celebrants, and yelled “F–k the Jews” on a subway platform.

Once on the train, one thug grabbed a visibly Jewish man by the throat and threatened to kill him.

Then, Tuesday afternoon in Crown Heights, an unhinged pedestrian shouted antisemitic remarks at passersby and stabbed one in the chest.

These particular incidents were caught on camera; many more surely were not.

And the spate of similar incidents around the nation and the world indicate that we are in the midst of an ugly and awful trend.

These violent Jew-haters aren’t bothering to cloak their prejudice in the garb of political concern for Palestinians: They are mainlining pure antisemitism, spitting out bilious, transparent rage.

The “Free Palestine” encampments and marches have unleashed a permission cascade that has made open expression of hostility toward Jews seem acceptable.

The keffiyeh-wrapped liars who smirked that “anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism” must be gratified now that the line between the two — always false — has been erased completely.

What else could “Globalize the intifada” ever have possibly meant?

Relentless blood libels about Israel and its war in Gaza successfully smeared supporters of the Jewish state, and by extension all Jews, as accomplices to murder.

Ancient suspicions about Jews as clannish, mysterious and malicious have returned in full force, and bigots untutored in campus niceties are going straight for the real thing, blaming Jews for inflation, social dislocation and whatever they feel like.

If this was ever a matter of left or right, it is no longer: The flood has spilled its banks and now threatens to inundate the nation in an acid bath of hate.

This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany and every other society around the world where Jews were isolated, vilified and then attacked. This is what “never again” means.

We — all New Yorkers, all Americans of good will — need to get a grip on this situation before it gets a grip on us.