A new and thought-provoking essay by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, published on October 26, 2025, offers one of the most original analyses of contemporary antisemitism in Western institutions - especially in universities and cultural circles. Instead of viewing antisemitism merely as a product of radical ideology, populist resentment, or mass migration, Mansour argues that it reflects a much deeper structural struggle among competing elites for power, prestige, and control over the institutions that shape Western influence and identity.
According to Mansour, antisemitism today serves as a cost-effective ideological weapon in a three-tiered competition among distinct but converging elite formations:
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A rising postcolonial elite within liberal-left institutions seeks to displace the Jewish components of the older Western intellectual establishment, taking over moral authority and institutional capital in academia and culture.
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Qatar, at the geopolitical level, pursues a parallel replacement strategy - attempting to substitute Israel as the indispensable regional ally of Western powers by offering a new model of influence tailored for the neoliberal, post-industrial era.
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The New Right, where an openly antisemitic faction challenges both the established conservative elite (seen as too philosemitic) and the liberal-Jewish elite (blamed as architects of national decline), framing their conflict as an “internal feud” between two cosmopolitan forces.
In each arena, antisemitism functions not as a revolutionary ideology but as a modular political technology - tool through which new contenders seek positional advantage in the hierarchy of Western power.
Mansour’s essay is especially significant for pro-Israel readers because it reframes the current wave of antisemitism not only as a moral crisis but as a strategic battle over the identity and future of the Western world. Israel and the Jewish people stand at the center of this contest—not just as symbols of resilience, but as rivals within the global struggle over culture, legitimacy, and authority.
👉 Read the full essay: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: “Antisemitism as Elite Competition: Inter-Elite Succession Politics From Edward Said to Qatar and Tucker Carlson” (Oct 26, 2025)
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