In conversation with em. Prof. Dr. Mitchell G. Ash (President Israel Studies Center, Vienna) and em. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel (Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz), sociologist Eva Illouz (EHESS Paris) examines what is new about the "new antisemitism," and asks why parts of the global progressive left responded to the attacks of October 7 with relativization rather than compassion. In doing so, she connects her research on emotions, culture, and capitalism with an analysis of the present: Where is the line between legitimate criticism of Israeli policy and antisemitism? What role do postcolonial frameworks, academic institutions, and the media economy of suffering play? And how do emotions such as guilt, moral indignation, and victimhood shape the spread of antisemitic ideas — even among people who would firmly reject this label?