 Israel instead hides behind the ethnicity, free of borders, accusing dissenting voices anywhere of being traitorous to the ethnicity. Why have we let Israel get away with this? Traditional anti-Semitism, for all its horrors, is powerless to harm the integrity of Jews or Judaism. That is to say, it's powerless to make its libels true. The Israeli state and Zionism, if we accept them at their word, succeed.