Texas “mall shoot­er” Mauri­cio Gar­cia embraced one of the old­est forms of hatred to jus­ti­fy his mur­der­ous ram­page – anti­semitism.

He hat­ed his own His­pan­ic eth­nic­i­ty. He hat­ed any­one who looked dif­fer­ent to him or pos­sessed a dif­fer­ent cul­ture. He hat­ed women for show­ing no inter­est in him.

His posts also reveal a pro­gres­sion from com­mon prej­u­dice into ever-deep­en­ing para­noia and con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries. He began to grav­i­tate more and more toward Nazi iconog­ra­phy and ide­ol­o­gy.

He tat­tooed large SS bolts on his arm and a swasti­ka on his chest.

He acquired a “right-wing death squad” patch, began to open­ly praise Hitler and fell ever deep­er into the world of the Nazi killing squads that car­ried out the geno­cide of the Jews.

Before long, all of Garcia’s dis­parate hatreds found a cen­tral focus, man­i­fest­ing in a dement­ed, time-worn nar­ra­tive.

Gar­cia turned to the “Jew­ish Ques­tion,” he assailed Jews for con­trol­ling the gov­ern­ment and he claimed that Jews had “engi­neered soci­ety so that men can­not mate with women.”

This was the final evo­lu­tion in the think­ing that had turned a young man from cruis­ing right-wing sites and find­ing kitsch in mil­i­tary insignia, to com­mit­ting mass mur­der.

Mauri­cio Gar­cia har­bored hatred against many groups — women, his own His­pan­ic her­itage and espe­cial­ly Jews.

Its trans­mis­sion through well-honed mythol­o­gy and con­spir­a­cies, its char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of Jews as both infe­ri­or and malev­o­lent­ly supe­ri­or.

But its capac­i­ty to shift from prej­u­dice to an all-con­sum­ing quest must be its most dis­tinct fea­ture.

Hitler unleashed the most dev­as­tat­ing war in his­to­ry in pur­suit of erad­i­cat­ing Jews.

Alex Ryvchin is the author of  the book “The Sev­en Dead­ly Myths – Anti­semitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West.”

Hen­ry Ford, a man who had every­thing, would rave about Jews con­trol­ling the world around the camp­fire.

They con­trolled the banks, real estate, they caused the fail­ures of the navy, they cre­at­ed jazz music, he would tell any­one will­ing to lis­ten.

Ford used his immense wealth and cre­ative genius to pub­lish anti­se­mit­ic rants in the news­pa­per he acquired in 1919, The Dear­born Inde­pen­dent, even­tu­al­ly pack­ag­ing his favorite anti­semitism screeds into a two-vol­ume work titled “The Inter­na­tion­al Jew.”

Ford delib­er­ate­ly did not copy­right the book to enable its swift and easy dis­tri­b­u­tion. It became a sen­sa­tion in Ger­many. Hitler called Ford “his inspi­ra­tion” and kept a por­trait of him in his Munich office.

Gar­cia, pos­sess­ing no such means or high intel­lect, used what he had, easy access to guns, to kill as many inno­cent peo­ple as he could.

Anoth­er aspect of anti­semitism that makes it unique is its nos­tal­gia for a pur­er, bygone age and the belief that the Jew is the agent of its cor­rup­tion. Ford had it. Hitler had it.

Rep. Rashi­da Tlaib (D‑Mich.) believes that the cre­ation of the State of Israel in lands direct­ly linked to Jews since before Roman times is a Nak­ba, an Ara­bic word denot­ing “cat­a­stro­phe.”

One might con­sid­er the cat­a­stro­phe to be the exter­mi­na­tion of the Euro­pean Jews which end­ed just three years pri­or to Israel’s inde­pen­dence.

Indus­tri­al­ist Hen­ry Ford was a rabid anti­semite whose books and writ­ings influ­enced Adolf Hitler.

Ford was able to dis­sem­i­nate many of his most hate-filled philoso­phies through ‘The Dear­born Inde­pen­dent,’ the news­pa­per he pur­chased in 1919.

Or the Arab vio­lence and polit­i­cal black­mail that led to the British freez­ing out mil­lions of Jews from Man­date-era Pales­tine, direct­ly lead­ing to their deaths.

Tlaib might con­sid­er the cat­a­stro­phe to be rejec­tion by the Arabs of two-state solu­tions in 1937 and 1947, which could have spared a lot of blood and tears.

Instead, Tlaib has blamed Holo­caust sur­vivors who found refuge in Israel for “wip­ing out” Pales­tini­ans. She has tried to purge sup­port­ers of Israel (vir­tu­al­ly all Jews) from pro­gres­sive spaces claim­ing that true pro­gres­sives can­not be pro-Israel, and invoked chill­ing rhetoric about those ‘behind the cur­tain’ that ‘make mon­ey … to con­trol and express peo­ple.” They do it from “Gaza to Detroit,” she said.

Equal­ly dis­turb­ing is that despite his famil­iar­i­ty with Jew­ish his­to­ry, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I‑Vt.) host­ed an inflam­ma­to­ry event in the Sen­ate on May 10 to mark 75 years of “Nak­ba” after House Speak­er Kevin McCarthy can­celled Tlaib’s ini­tial plan to hold it at the Capi­tol.

In doing so, Sanders effec­tive­ly laun­dered her con­tem­po­rary anti­semitism into respectable “pro-Pales­tini­an­ism” or “anti-Zion­ism.”

Anoth­er fea­ture of anti­semitism is that while it scars the Jew­ish peo­ple in every gen­er­a­tion, it hurts the per­pe­tra­tor more.

From Baby­lon and Rome to the Nazis them­selves, the anti­semites have dis­ap­peared while the Jews endure.

They out­live their tor­men­tors not as a quirk of his­to­ry but because by turn­ing on this numer­i­cal­ly minus­cule nation —  that gave the world its great reli­gions and the ethics derived from them —they turn on a vital part of them­selves and so suf­fer a mor­tal wound.

Tlaib and her patrons should remem­ber this.