wistrich is quite clear when he states that this anti zionism of the radical leftist camp profoundly discriminatory towards jewish nationalism has now spread into the mainstream liberal left whose rhetoric relentlessly seeks to undermine the moral and historical legitimacy of a jewish state bauer is also clear when he says it is a basically upper middle class intellectual phenomenon it is widespread in the media in universities and in well manicured circles typical is the statement of the french ambassador to britain at a cocktail party later reported in the british press referring to israel with typical diplomatic politeness and finesse as that shitty little country when chesler talks about the new anti semitism from the left she's talking about her old buddies none of them are talking about wild eyed marxists talk