The Heartland and Rimland divisions just don’t capture the flavor of what is happening. Anti-Semitism does: since in its latest iteration it has been ignited by the war between Israel and Gaza and has since spread throughout the West, to the Russian Empire, and to China. Witness the pogrom-like riot in the Russian republic of Dagestan in response to the arrival of a flight from Israel, and the attacks on Jews in Chinese social-media circles in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack.
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