“As was Stalinism for an earlier generation of left-wing literary intellectuals, so is antisemitism becoming the avant-garde.” James Kirchick on the antisemitism of leftist authoritarians in the literary world: “Over the past several months, a litmus test has emerged across wide swaths of the literary world effectively excluding Jews from full participation unless they denounce Israel.” “There’s a distasteful irony in a literary community that has gone to the barricades fighting book ‘bans’ now rallying to boycott authors based on their ethnoreligious identity.” “Until relatively recently, the use of ‘Zionist’ as a slur was most commonly confined to Soviet and Arab propagandists, who spent decades trying to render the word the moral equivalent of ‘Nazi.’ Today many progressives use the word in similar fashion.”