The Selective Outrage and Hypocrisy of Antisemitism

In this Daily Signal article, Victor Davis Hanson argues that selective outrage toward Israel reveals a deeper hypocrisy in how antisemitism is often expressed and excused.

• Hanson argues that criticism of Israel is not automatically antisemitic, but it becomes troubling when it leans into conspiratorial claims about Jewish control, money, or influence.
• He says “selective outrage” is one of the clearest signs of antisemitism, especially when Israel is condemned far more harshly than other nations committing similar or worse abuses.
• Hanson compares Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks with how the United States would likely react if a proportional attack were carried out by cartels against American civilians.
• He contends that Hamas embedded itself in tunnels beneath civilian locations such as schools, mosques, and hospitals, making civilian casualties tragically predictable.
• The article points to Turkey, Azerbaijan, France, Arab nations, Iran, and others as examples of governments or societies whose abuses receive far less campus or media outrage than Israel’s actions.
• Hanson criticizes left-wing campus protesters for ignoring the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh while obsessively condemning Israel after Oct. 7.
• He argues that Arab nations ethnically cleansed roughly 900,000 Jews after Israel’s founding, while Israel’s Arab population has grown significantly since 1948.
• Hanson singles out Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani as examples of political figures who sharply condemn Israel while, in his view, ignoring uncomfortable histories tied to their own backgrounds or political circles.
• The central claim is that the obsession with condemning Israel, while excusing or ignoring far worse actions by others, exposes hypocrisy rather than moral consistency.

Read the full story: https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/28/selective-outrage-of-antisemitism/