Even when a problem exists on both sides of our political spectrum, it can manifest itself differently, because the two sides are not composed of the same types of people and do not attract people or organize themselves in the same ways. That is frequently the case with antisemitism. The topic of antisemitism, its history, and its appearance in distinct political movements is of course a large one — for example, the tendency of conspiratorial thinking to either lead to or result from antisemitism — but I’m thinking here of the current and recent American political scene. The difference is that the antisemitism on the left (especially among politically vocal people) is much more commonly ideological, whereas the antisemitism on the right tends to look more like traditional bigotry. The distinction isn’t universal, of course: There are still periodic outbursts of old bigotries on the left, and there are people on the right for whom antisemitism is part of a larger anti-globalist or isolationist worldview. But this divide has been exactly why a lot of people on the center-left have talked themselves into thinking that their antisemites weren’t a problem, because they sounded like faculty-lounge ideologues rather than like bigoted jerks. What is becoming apparent to many of them just now is that they have this backward: The ideological antisemites are much more dangerous because they’re the ones likely to align with governments and terror organizations committed to the massacre of Jews on a large scale.

Erick Erickson has a strong piece on this, and he names names on the right and notes that the orgy of insanity from the hard left should make us look more skeptically at voices on the right who give off the odor of antisemitism:

The antisemitism of the progressive movement is extreme and disgusting. Pay attention to that.

But also pay attention to how silent people like Candace Owens have been. She’s routinely dabbled in questionable views of both Israel and Jews. Her Twitter feed is rather quiet right now as conservatives unite to support Israel. She’s mostly resorted to just retweeting others who themselves want Israeli restraint. For a woman of strong opinions, those of you on the right should note just how quiet she is.

And then you should look at Andrew Tate, who is fully pro-Hamas and anti-Israel. You should consider that this is not a new view of his, but it is now more notable given Hamas’s atrocities. You should remember who platformed him, who elevated him, and who thought he was a voice of reason and sanity and you should walk away from them and him.

Or consider Nick Fuentes and how many in the conservative movement once embraced him and how some still do.

Friends, the left’s antisemitism is loud and proud at this moment. But what is equally loud is the silence of some on the right who are antisemites and silent now about these atrocities. Their silence is damning. It’s not just those above, but many others.

They can question wars, the military-industrial complex, isolationism, and warmongering evangelicals but cannot even muster a word of support for Israel or condemn Hamas. They are engaged in performance — tweeting, writing, and speaking of distractions to avoid even offering sympathy to the parents of decapitated children. Americans are dead, killed by Hamas. They are silent there too, blasting everyone else as a neocon warmonger. They say, “We’re not anti-Semites, just isolationists,” but have strong views nonetheless on all the world’s affairs except dead Americans and dead babies in Israel. Funny that.

It is all a ruse of ill intent. They know their views are abhorrent to the conservative movement in which they have embedded. So they play three card monte with their views to distract from their silence. They see evil and do not recognize it as such because it looks vague to them. Evil is always obtuse to its apologists.