Commentary There are approximately 3,000 Jews in China. In a population of a billion people, that’s a statistical rounding error. The overwhelming majority of Chinese people will never meet a Jew, even though they have maintained a presence in China for 1,000 years. So I was surprised to read, in a recent Tablet Magazine article titled “Antisemitism with Chinese Characteristics,” that since the May 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict, antisemitic tropes and sentiments have been “propagated on Chinese state media, encouraged by top Chinese diplomats, and rehashed by well-known Chinese political commentators.” As a case in point, author Tuvia Gering points to popular ex-assembly-line worker turned media sensation Lu Kewen, who boasts 15 million subscribers to his media channel. In late May, Lu published an 8,000-character five-part rant titled “What should we make of the Jews?” It was a compilation of tired blood libels of European, Russian, and Arab provenance, with quotations …
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