A couple of weeks ago, the Jewish press was all excited about the fact that one of the male contestants in the new series of Love Island was Jewish. Now I’ve never actually watched Love Island but I gather it involves putting some men and women on a island and filming them as they decide who should have sex with who. This isn’t something I’d usually blog about but I do find it interesting that the behaviour of this Jew has apparently provoked indignation and rejection from everyone watching the programme. It has been characterised as a combination of deceit, manipulation and moralistic posturing, all of which conforms perfectly to what are usually called “anti-Semitic tropes”. Read about it in full on the Daily Mail here.

Here, in microcosm, we see the story of the Jew throughout history. He enters a new environment where is completely unknown and is treated like anyone else; but soon his outrageous behaviour makes everyone despise him and want to be rid of him; in the end, the Jew is ejected by people who decide they can no longer put up with his underhand ways. Afterwards, the Jew smears the memory of the people he lived among, saying they were prejudiced against him for no reason.

Now this Love Island apparently has some voting-based exclusion process, so probably the Jew will be forced out soon. I wonder how long it will be before we hear the first bleats of “antisemitism” from the Jewish press.

The Love Island people probably don’t even know he is a Jew. And since some of them apparently don’t even know what Brexit is, it’s extremely unlikely they are read up on the finer points of the Jewish Question. That’s what makes this interesting. They have settled on a set of anti-Semitic tropes to describe him without even knowing he is a Jew, thus proving it is Jewish behaviour that generates antagonism and not pre-existing prejudice.