The changing prejudice Jews face in America: From reel antisemitism to real antisemitism

The 20th-century “We won’t attack you but know your place in ‘our’ society” has turned to in-your-face vitriol that targets anti-Zionists, where slurs and worse are in the open.

To paraphrase a French maxim: “The more things stay the same … the worse they get.”

At least, as far as antisemitism is concerned.

This thought came to me early one recent morning, while I was channel switching my TV at home. I came across a broadcast of “Gentleman’s Agreement,” the ground-breaking 1947 movie, starring Gregory Peck, about discrimination against Jews in post-World War II, post-Holocaust, supposedly enlightened American society.

The film, in which Peck portrayed Philip Schuyler Green, a non-Jewish magazine journalist who posed as a Jew to investigate the extent of antisemitism in the country (the film also features several other sub-plots about Jews and bigotry), was ground-breaking because most of Hollywood’s major movie studios, under Jewish control, were afraid to touch the topic.

Read more on the original article : https://www.jns.org/the-changing-prejudice-jews-face-in-america-from-reel-antisemitism-to-real-antisemitism/