From the left and right: “For the first time, young Jews are experiencing the antisemitism much more familiar to their parents and grandparents”

JERUSALEM POST
Antisemitism in America is rising on the Right and the Left
by Adam Milstein
October 25, 2016

For thousands of years Jews have been targeted, persecuted and hated for a range of irrational and paradoxical reasons. We have been blamed for the crucifixion and killing of Jesus, even though Jesus was a Jew. We have been hated for maintaining our distinct Jewish identity – and, when we do assimilate, for threatening the racial purity of the society where we live…In recent years, we have seen a clear resurgence of antisemitism in nations where many thought it had been confined forever to the margins of society. Antisemitism in Europe is at its highest levels since immediately before the Holocaust. According to the ADL, around a quarter of Western Europeans are antisemitic. READ MORE

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