Over the years, I’ve found philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism to be good yardsticks of both nations and people.  Regarding the former, it’s no coincidence that, throughout history, those nations that thrive are, for their time and place, philo-Semitic, while those that fail are anti-Semitic.  One can say this is God’s will, or one can note that free societies benefit all citizens, and part of a free society is that it leaves its Jews alone.  You don’t have to love Jews; you just have to leave them be.  Totalitarian societies, on the other hand, the ones that oppress their people, invariably hate their Jews, and use them as a scapegoat to distract the masses from the horrors of the regime…
