Ultimate vs. Proximate Causation In Regards To Antisemitism

Your Honor,

I present, exhibit A in this case.

Antisemitism

Proximate Cause: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/31/662436272/trump-and-anti-semitism

Jeffrey Herf, a historian at the University of Maryland who has written widely on the anatomy of anti-Semitism, argues that particular arguments and habits of thinking underlie its power. Most important, he says, is a willingness to buy into conspiratorial thinking.

I object your honor!

Where does this thinking, this conspiratorial thinking, come from? Counselor???!!!

Ultimate Causation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine%27s_Sword

The primary source of anti-Jewish violence is the perennial obsession with converting the Jews to Christianity; an event which some theologians believed would usher in the Second Coming. 

We will not be rid of anitsemitism until we accept the real cause, not the pseudo-cause. Accepting this requires looking into a mirror.