For years I have considered, antisemitism, to be a hatred of the Jews, spiritually provoked by the devil.

Perhaps it is understood in light of Revelation 12.

Then Pharaoh ordering the killing of male babies, or the next Pharaoh at the Res sea, or Haman wanting to kill all Jews, to Herod killing children 2 and under, to Hitler's final solution.

These are all extremely beyond the pale, and inexplicable without considering the devil provoking that.

How could people invent stories of Jews killing Gentile babies to make matzoh with the blood, and so many people then believing it?

When I was young, long before the internet, some grade-schooler would spout off with something like, "the Jews control the banks", or "the Jews control Hollywood".

Where did they get that? I'm sure that they didn't spend significant hours at the library looking up all the larger stockholders of the major banks to determine that.

And neither did their parents, and neither did the grade school teachers.

Had someone actually spent that time to truly research those major banks, they likely would have discovered the opposite, that the majority shareholders wasn't what they thought.

No, more than likely, their parents had heard the name Rothschild, and decided that all the banks are controlled by the Jews.

Or they heard the names Mayer, or Spielberg, and concluded that all Hollywood was controlled by the Jews.

The grade-schoolers then heard their parents make antisemitic claims, and they simply echoed it. 

Later, in the 70's, there were very few Jews living in Japan:

The majority of Jews in Japan in the 1970s consisted of those who had come on contracts of 2 to 5 years, while the permanent Jewish population was less than 200.

Yet, a decade later, there was an explosion of antisemitic works in Japan:

Anti-Semitism in Japan: It’s a Mystery and a Dangerous Absurdity

So, now there is antisemitism everywhere, and it is growing rapidly.

What is also strange is how it is the antisemites calling the US president, Hitler.

Is it possible that the LORD allows antisemitism to be a temptation, a test, to see if someone will allow the LORD to provoke them to good will towards the Jews, or the devil to provoke them to hate them?

If so, it would explain how that completely world wide:

Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

What would cause Eskimos and Danes, living in Greenland, to be driven to gather against Jerusalem?

Or Tibet?  or the Congo?

Is it possible that this may be what happens?

II Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

  12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

That every nation will believe a lie so horrendous, that they go from where ever they are, to actually send troops to Israel, to take Jerusalem from the Jews?

In the 40's as Germany took over nations in Europe, the nazis didn't have to hunt down all the Jews by themselves, but there were people willing to turn them over to the nazis.

After WWII, it was thought that Europe's antisemitism was over, but it has reawakened.

Shortly after the fall of communism, I had the opportunity to visit a friend in Kiev.

While there, it was explained to me that there was a Russian group, Pamyat, that was going around convincing people of antisemitic conspiracies.

For instance, one such conspiracy was that, children had not died from residual radiation effects, after Chernobyl, a few years earlier,

but they were convincing people that an Hasidic group in Brooklyn was sending poison milk to Ukraine to kill non-Jewish children.

One of the people from Pamyat, spoke fluent English, and was trying to explain these things to me, and was shocked that I didn't simply believe their conspiracies.

Now, in US schools, 3rd or 4th generation American, Jewish children are being troubled because Hamas propaganda about Israel supposedly starving Palestinian children to death on purpose.