Is there a German word for when someone you loathe does something you admire? ‘Feindbewunderung’ perhaps? I’ve been taken aback to feel it twice in recent weeks, and both times inspired by pop singers, of all the unlikely characters. Both times, less surprisingly to anyone who knows what an incorrigible philo-Semite I am, the issue was Israel. Now Ed Sheeran (who seemed happy to be supported on his tour by the fantastically pro-Pally ‘white rapper’ Macklemore) is being reviled by the practitioners of what I call ‘Fresh’n’funky anti-Semitism’ Earlier this year came ‘Boy’ George O’Dowd with his song about the...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
