This is the opening to my essay on Mark Mazower’s argument about how the meaning of antisemitism transformed in the postwar decades , published in the Observer on 28 September 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. “Anti-Zionism is one of the modern forms of antisemitism”, said the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in 2019, for which claim he won considerable praise from Jewish groups and Israeli leaders. Last month Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, echoed the sentiment […]

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