inclement circumstances!! I love that phrasing, thank you.

As I said, Prager describes seven major forms of anti-Semitism–pagan, Christian, Muslim, enlightenment, leftist, Nazi, and anti-Zionist. If I remember correctly, it was actually the pagan form and the Nazi form that Prager had described as having the main (although not the sole) source of their Jew-hatred an antipathy to the values of Jews. The other forms of Jew-hatred emphasize other things.

I also have – unfortunately – spent a fair amount of time reading at Jew-hating sites. In recent years one can find a wide variety of reasons they give for their virulent hatred of Jews. For example, you can definitely find the ancient “Jews killed Christ” and the related “Jews reject and don’t accept Christ as their Savior” reasons. You can find the “Jews control everything” reason (the one you mention). You can find the “Jews hate white people and promote immigration with the goal of replacing white people” one, and you can find the “Jews are privileged white people” one. Among leftists in particular, there’s “Jews are committing genocide against the poor brown Palestinians.” With someone like Candace Owens and her followers, you can see a lot of “Jews are international child traffickers,” “Jews are Satanic,” and “Israeli Jews are out to commit genocide on Christians in the Middle East” (that last one is a favorite of Tucker Carlson as well). Jew-hatred is a shape-shifter.

As far as Prager goes, I don’t know what he used to be like, but in recent years – at least in videos I’ve seen – I don’t see him as talking down to people or as being a weak thinker. He certainly seems to know a great about Judaism and talks about it, but I’ve not seen him being condescending or shallow or “weak.” Nothing at all like David Brooks. I’d be curious to see some examples; I certainly haven’t seen tons of his videos nor have I read most of his work.

Of course, for the last year or so he’s been fighting for his life and rehabbing, having become a quadriplegic. I don’t think he’s put out any (certainly not much) content since his accident other than updates on his health.

If you are anti-Zionist as opposed to (theoretically) anti-nationalist it means any group can have its own country, except the Jews. Q. E. D.

Sure, anti-Semitism has a long history, but that doesn’t mean the more contemporary explanations of Jewish success and the need for scapegoats don’t count.

During my spelunking into white supremacist websites on account of my neo-Nazi surfer buddy, I didn’t hear anything about Judaism’s distinctive values. (For that matter, Christianity has distinctive values.)

What I did hear was how Jews controlled the media, finances, entertainment and the government. ZOG — Zionist Occupation Government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory

I listened to a lot of Dennis Prager when I was working my way into conservatism. I eventually concluded he was a weak thinker, like David Brooks or Neil deGrasse Tyson, who nonetheless imagined he had the moral and intellectual high ground to speak down to the rest of us.

Dennis Prager has written on the subject:

Drawing on extensive historical research, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin reveal how Judaism’s distinctive conceptions of God, law, and peoplehood have rendered the Jews and the Jewish state outsiders and labeled them as threatening. But as Prager and Telushkin are quick to point out, anti-Semitism is not just another ethnic or racial prejudice and is not caused, as so many people falsely believe, by Jewish economic success or the need for scapegoats. Rather, anti-Semitism today, as in the past, is a reaction to Judaism and its distinctive values. … Prager and Telushkin identify the seven major forms of anti-Semitism–pagan, Christian, Muslim, enlightenment, leftist, Nazi, and anti-Zionist–and explain why it is impossible in today’s world to be an anti-Zionist without being an antisemite.

Best as I can tell it seems to be a mixture of religious and tribal hatreds and the sort of special place Jewish culture and thought had at shaking up the norms of the Bronze and Iron Age worlds. The persecution of Jews by other Abrahamics is justifiably infamous and for very good reasons but I think we blind ourselves (like the US Holocaust Museum did) by just focusing on those reasons for the motives.’