Of course, there is also that piece of shit, Mel Gibson, and the lesser-known (unless you are a big YouTuber) of PewDeePie. Of course, anti-Semitism is excused by many, too many, on the left, unless they can work it into support for some other group. There is also the constant shell game of "I am really taking about Zionists" but using anti-Semitic tropes, one after another. See: Toronto restaurant owner Kimberly Hawkins is defiantly anti-Semitic as her business crumbles around her .
I am currently listening to a book on antisemitism and the first part (where I am) is recollections and essays from famous people in history on the issue of anti-Semitism. I just listened to the entire "J'accuse" by Émile Zola in regards to the Dreyfus Affair. There was also a piece by Maxim Gorky criticizing Russian pogroms and anti-Semitism (Russia and Germany are constant examples). Of course, I just discovered Gorky was a homophobe, not that spectacular for that time, but he advocated for death for gay people, which, IMO, flies in the face of his essay against anti-Semitic issues. And I listened to part of Jean Paul Satre's Réflexions sur la question juive. I haven't read (or heard) the entire essay, but the last part deals with anti-Semitism among Jews.
"Far from experience producing his idea of the Jew, it was the latter that explained his experience. If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him." Anti-Semitism is a view that arises not from experience or historical fact, but from itself. It lends new perspective to experience and historical fact. The anti-Semite convinces himself of beliefs that he knows to be spurious at best.
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
-- Jean Paul Satre
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