The war on antisemitism is continuous with the older struggle against perceived Eastern duplicity

Evidence

It is at any rate against him, against ‘Ketman as a social institution’ (p. 79), that an earlier mobilisation had long taken place, with no more recognition of itself as a social, intellectual, religious and political movement. When Said named that movement ‘Orientalism’, he left out the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the war against Communism (that war against the East), but he did not omit antisemitism. And while they do tend to recognise some historical antecedents, the contemporary scholars who have spoken of a new Islamophobia still have a great many difficulties identifying among long-familiar faces the well-known portrait of the antisemite. For there is perhaps the surest vector towards an understanding of the war on antisemitism: namely, that it has enlisted itself in a long and extended struggle that takes as its ideal Christ over Ketman, and the survivor over the Muslim. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1227

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ketman here is Milosz’s term, apparently denoting a mode of Eastern/oriental dissimulation that antisemitism’s Western critics frame themselves against.