The current wave of global antisemitism challenges Jewish survival

But it also reveals what Nietzsche really meant by the "death of God"

There is a tale, possibly apocryphal, about Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who in the 1870s united for the first time through “blood and iron” Germany’s numerous and fractious petty principalities into one nation. 

The Kaiser asked Bismarck if he could prove the existence of God.  In his signature blunt style Bismarck replied simply: “the Jews, your majes…