My tendency to disagree with Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy has become a natural reflex, an almost-biological urge. Yet this time he is dead-on. Levy writes of a new anti-Semitism, flowering in North Tel-Aviv, aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews who have moved into the neighborhood.

Anti-Semitism is raising its head. Not in Warsaw, Munich or Paris, and there’s no need for the Anti-Defamation League to wave the evidence around. It’s right here, in our own home, in verdant Ramat Aviv, the most enlightened suburb of Tel Aviv, our most enlightened city. The entry of a handful of ultra-Orthodox Jews to this lovely, modest and tranquil neighborhood has provoked an unlovely wave of racism, tearing the thin veil of openness and liberality from this seemingly left-wing community. If anyone were to behave this way toward Israeli Arabs, the residents might raise a hue and cry, but when it comes to Haredim the gloves are off because attacking the “blacks” is the fashion.

Natan Sharansky has promoted what he calls the “3D” test for anti-Semitism: De-legitimization, Demonization, Double-Standards. Sharansky of course is talking about how to tell legitimate criticism of Israel from the bigotry spreading across Europe. Yet the same test can be applied to internal, Jewish anti-Semitism. Dare I deploy the cliche of “baseless hatred” from the Talmud? We know how that ended up…