Tonni: "Antisemitism is a mental illness that has a one dollar cure. "
I believe it's possible for many non-Jews to dislike being around Jews because of cultural differences, religious differences, etc., and yet not be a virulent hater of Jewish people like those we call anti-Semites. People who are basically good at heart can feel uncomfortable and ill at ease when in the presence of Jews and others who don't share a common background and history with them. This doesn't mean that they ascribe every evil on the planet to Jews and want to commit genocide against them.
The real Jew-Haters in the world are a different lot entirely. They really are suffering a delusional psychosis. Their problem is way too complex to be dismissed as "they're just ignorant", for many of them are college educated as well as academics. These are the "true believers" who regularly receive, read, and contribute articles to Nazi periodicals and journals, pay their membership dues, and atttend meetings.
But for those that lead them, "Anti-Semitism" is a Big Business, and if not the oldest business on the planet, then certainly the most cynical.
Professional anti-Semites like David Duke are motivated by two things:
By the large sums of money to be earned selling anti-Semitic books, pamphlets, and paraphernalia, and by the power to be gained in gathering around themselves a following of hate-filled and personally frustrated people who listen to their lies and then turn over to them their hard earned dollars.
For sure they hate Jews, but realize that if they were to actually liquidate them all from the planet then they could no longer use "the Jew" to earn money, and they would then be left to face the product of their own making; a violent mob in need of a scapegoat.
In a very real sense professional anti-Semites are engaged in a legally protected (at least in the U.S.A.) organized crime involving hi-tech mass marketing, publishing, broadcast media, interstate trade, public speaking, the recording industry, the clothing and jewelry industry, and the "religious cult" industry.