Communications

Israel responded accordingly. Government statements expressing disappointment soon gave way to threats targeting Chinese companies operating in Israel’s ports and to flirtation with Taiwan, all aimed at sending a harsh message to Beijing. These moves were in sync with Israeli public opinion. Recent polls show that more than half of Israelis consider China unfriendly or hostile...

Shahar Eilam, a senior research fellow who heads the research project on contemporary antisemitism in the US at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), told The Media Line that Jews in America are feeling increasingly under threat. “There is a normalization of [antisemitic] discourse, of things that we weren’t used to hearing before,” Eilam said....