Anti-Semitism: Maintaining Distinctions
Where anti-Semitism becomes most dangerous is when it moves from the realm of the personal to the political. There is no question that a lone, anti-Semitic Muslim, motivated by his religion and sanctioned by his religious leaders, can be very dangerous. Sudden Jihad Syndrome is an expression of just such a confluence of political and psychopathological anti-Semitism. So, too, the acts of one such as the Holocaust Museum gunman represent a confluence of political and psychopathological anti-Semitism. Yet as dangerous as these kinds of terrorists can be, they pale in comparison to the potential of those who are not only politically and psychopathologically anti-Semitic, but include membership in terrorist groups dedicated to bringing their distinct political philosophy to fruition. Here then is where the distinction must be made, between those who are acting alone, even if under the influence of a particular ideology, and those who have leveraged their hatred and psychopathology with other like minded indi