New anti-Semitism
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Fischel cites the French philosopher Pierre-André Taguieff who argues, in Rising From the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe (2002), that over the last 30 years, Judenhass based on racism and nationalism has been replaced by a new form based on anti-racism and anti-nationalism, wherein "among the left, Israel has come to personify the pre-eminent apartheid state." [12] Taguieff argues that traditional anti-Jewish slogans have been merged with anti-Zionist rhetoric to create a syllogism:

    * Jews are all more or less crypto-Zionists.
    * Zionism is a form of colonialism, imperialism and racism.
    * Therefore Jews are colonialists, imperialists and racists, whether overt or covert. [12]

Fischel argues that the widespread dissemination of these arguments has resonated with intellectuals in France and Germany, both countries with large Muslim populations. By representing Zionism as evil, "an anti-Jewish vision of the world reconstituted itself in the second half of the 20th century that replicates the vicious stereotypes about Jews which laid the propagandistic groundwork for the Holocaust." [10]