I’ve lived with Jew hate for several parts of my life.

I was in an El Paso elementary school from 1946 to 1949.  The Mexican kids would follow me home from school and throw rocks at me whenever the Dominican traveling priests came to Juarez to denounce Jews.  Fortunately I was a fast runner.  

The Roman Catholic hatred of Jews abated when Pope John XXIII called Vatican Council II.  The current Pope Francis has brought it back.

My closest friend in 1953-55 was David Stern, in Seattle, whose mother was national president of the American Jewish Committee. That AJC, at that time, was anti-Israel because the members wanted to assimilate and they believed Israel, as a Jewish state, would make assimilation difficult. My father, a reform rabbi, had been in Israel in the pre-State days helping on the Dead Sea scrolls and loved Israel.

I had no personal difficulty with Jew hate, other than the Mexicans, ever again.

I knew about the hereditary-class Jew hate, but it had no effect on me. It brushed up against me in 1967 when I became a bank officer and then the youngest Vice President in American banking at the Bank of California.  The Bank was the home of the hereditary class in 1960s banking but hadn’t always been because my paternal family were proud customers, and board members in the 1870’s to 1900. The bank expected me to join one of the elite private clubs in San Francisco.  The bank didn’t know that a Phillips could be a Jew. Jews were excluded from the top clubs until 1970.  Jews had been forced, sixty years earlier, to take over the Bohemian Club and start the Concordia Club.  I could have joined the University Club where I used the squash courts but never bothered to join.

All my life Spain has hated Jews, the same country that drove my patrilineal ancestors to Holland four hundred years ago, still hates Israel and prizes ham as its top meat.  Ireland has hated Jews and Israel.  The hatred of Jews began when Germany became a belligerent in 1938 and the Irish love the rantings of Hitler to this day. 

I dealt with Jew hate in the mid 1990’s when blacks at San Francisco State University were openly expressing it painting Jew hate murals and attacking Jews on the faculty.  Nearly all of whom left within five years.  Jew hate on campus has never abated.  Largely from blacks thanks to the Black Muslims.  Arabs have since found a home at S.F. State.

I haven’t had to deal with media Jew hate since I stopped reading the NewYork Times in the early 1970s.

A whole new self-hatred of Jews began in the late 1990s’ with the Anti-Defamation League when Lefty Jew hate was beginning and the ADL could only see the non-existent Jew hate in the politics of the Conservative leaders.  The ADL is a bastion of Jew hate to this day, along with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Real home grown American Jew hate exploded sometime in the late 2010’s.  My son calls it “Leftyism on Steroids.”  Which it is.