The topic of “anti-semitism” has gained increasing prominence again recently with the Israel-US vs Iran war. But as Rothbard has noted, there is no real problem of anti-semitism in the US; the real problem is anti-anti-semitism. See, e.g., his articles “Pat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-Anti-Semitism,” Rothbard-Rockwell Report (Dec. 1990), in The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard (Center for Libertarian Studies, 2000); “Buchanan an Anti-Semite? It’s a Smear: His enemies labored hard, and brought forth a pitiful mouse,” L.A. Times (Jan. 6, 1992); and “Anti-Anti-Semitism Gone Bananas,” Rothbard-Rockwell Report 4, no. 10 (October 1993): 10–12 (pdf1; pdf2).
Those ranting about anti-semitism are not really concerned with genuine anti-semitism, anymore than the antifa is really anti-fascist1 or the Southern Poverty Law Center is really aimed at fighting poverty.2
- Thus, the exhortation to “crush the antifascist mob.” Hoppe, “Libertarianism and the Alt-Right: In Search of a Libertarian Strategy for Social Change,” The Libertarian Alliance (Oct. 20, 2017); Kinsella, KOL395 | Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection (PFS 2022). [↩]
- Douglas E. French, “How Movements are Turned into Rackets,”in When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy, Stephan Kinsella, ed. (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025). [↩]
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