A
major study by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research finds
anti-Semitic attitudes evenly spread across Britain’s political spectrum
– with one clear exception: those identifying as ‘very right-wing’ are
two to four times more likely to dislike Jews than anyone else.

This is
the context in which, in late 2016, the House of Commons Home Affairs
Committee conducted an inquiry into anti-Semitism. Their report
nods to YouGov polling that finds anti-Semitism pollutes all the main
parties equally, with UKIP twice as sullied: UKIP is then never
mentioned again. We read that the far Right is responsible for three
quarters of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, and that it was ‘an
increase in far-right extremist activity’ that provoked the writing of
the report – after which the far Right, too, is never mentioned
again.

The report leans on surveys produced by the fringe Campaign
Against Antisemitism, which claims British Jews believe Labour and the
Left are the homes of contemporary anti-Semitism.
[..] There is no other corner of national life that gets anything like the
same level of attention in the report, with the partial exception of
pro-Palestinian left-wingers in student politics.

[..]
Since 2015, debate on this subject has usually remained mired in each new
scandal; every few months another Labour Party anti-Semitism story
flares up and a slew of articles follows. Amid the slanging match,
nobody has much time to develop an account of anti-Semitism capable of
explaining both its persistence in contemporary Britain and its improper
mobilisation as an allegation. Unfortunately, this is today an urgent
task, especially for the anti-Zionist left, which lacks rigorous
theories of contemporary anti-Semitism. We have need of them.

[..]
Racism usually treats its Other as inferior.

Anti-Semitism instead treats Jews as terrifyingly superior: rich,
powerful, cunning, effectively conspiring to pursue their own interests
and so to crush everyone else.

[..]
This is not to say that Jews are only superior in the anti-Semitic imaginary. 

We are instead a treacherous, warped compound of superiority and inferiority. 
Too much rationalism, too little emotion: deficiency and excess, the
super- and the subhuman go hand in hand. As ‘rootless cosmopolitans’
sundered from ties to native soils, Jews are exemplars of a globalising
bourgeois future feared by parochial conservatisms.

And so anti-Semitism is perpetually paranoid

[..]
the Jewish subject as he (usually he) appears in the anti-Semitic mind is a fantasy –
a negative projection where people take all that they dislike in
themselves and imagine it bundled together in an externalised image, an
alien being, a Jew.

Barnaby Raine – Jewophobia