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Summary: a thorough look at a troubling new trend
Review: As explained in the editorial reviews, Gabriel Schoenfeld analyzes resurgent antisemitism and presents an interesting thesis about it. THESIS part 1: As is well known, in the 19th century, European antisemitism underwent a radical shift, from a religious and economic basis to a racial and pseudo-scientific one. Conspiracy theories abounded. Schoenfeld argues that the new European antisemitism of the 19th century migrated to the Middle East and blended with pre-existing Judeophobia (which was not as virulent as the European variant). Compounded with the growing Palestine conflict and Arab frustration at losing out in the process of modernization, Arab peoples looked for a scapegoat. Here is where the imported European antisemitism comes in. Rather than blame themselves for falling behind the West in terms of economic and scientific progress, it was easier for Arab elites to blame "the Jews" or "the West" controlled by a Jewish conspiracy. Religious leaders and authoritarian political leaders (such as Nassar) resented that the Jews thrived in the West and that Israel became a successful, wealthy, democratic state while Arab states grew ever more poor. THESIS part 2: The Muslim Middle East distilled racial and conspiracy theories and -- in the post-Holocaust world -- reimported them to Europe. Why do Europeans buy them? There are some radical right-wing antisemites left in Europe, and their nationalism and xenophobia merges with antisemitism. This is particularly true in eastern Europe, Germany, and England. *However*, more dangerous is the fact that antisemitism has found favor with many on the political Left. The generation of 1968 (anti-war demonstrators, envionmentalists, Greens, etc.) is now in power in Europe. Many of its members have not abandoned their anti-Americanism and excessive admiration for so-called Third World liberation movements, the PLO included. They distrust America; they resent America's support for Israel; they perceive Israel to be an apartheid state or genocidal regime; and they claim that American Jews control the policy of the US government. Anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism. Hatred of Israel and its policies translates into dislike of Jews in Europe. Another important factor is the very large Muslim population in contemporary Europe. Jews make up a minuscule percentage of Europe's population, but countries like France are 10% Muslim, and that percentage is increasing. That's a lot of voters in the future. For now, however, Muslim Europeans are disproportionately unemployed and resentful. Their frustration and anti-Israeli sentiment has led to numerous attacks on European Jews. STRENGTH: Schoenfeld's catalogue of incidents is not exhaustive, but it is very thorough. Moreover, his thesis seems to be very compelling. That European antisemitism migrated to the Middle East, has returned, and mixed with preexisting attitudes on the far Right and not-so-far Left is certainly food for thought. This reader found his thesis quite convincing overall. WEAKNESS: This reader, who is a professional academic, found Schoenfeld's documentation to be disappointing. An example: "in one recent novel, the antihero, a Jewish entrepreneur, is presented sipping champagne while contemplating a plan to take the blood and organs of healthy [Russians] and to sell them to medical centers in Israel" (p. 75). While this sentence is footnoted, the note refers to a report in which the novel is mentioned, not to the novel itself. I wanted to know the name of the novel and the author, not the name of some EU or WJC report on antisemitism. Unfortunately, the book is full of such citations. Often, one does not find the original item, but rather secondary literature about it. Schoenfeld has certainly done his research, but it seems that he has trolled Associate Press reports, newspaper articles, websites, and NGO reports rather than archives and academic sociological studies. This may not bother the casual reader, but an academic would demand more rigorous documentation. (Hence, only four stars.) CAVEAT: Some readers will not agree with Schoenfeld's personal politics or views on the West Bank/Gaza question, but I think that one may overlook these aspects of his book and still learn a lot, regardless of one's political persuasion.
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Summary: a thorough look at a troubling new trend
Review: As explained in the editorial reviews, Gabriel Schoenfeld analyzes resurgent antisemitism and presents an interesting thesis about it. THESIS part 1: As is well known, in the 19th century, European antisemitism underwent a radical shift, from a religious and economic basis to a racial and pseudo-scientific one. Conspiracy theories abounded. Schoenfeld argues that the new European antisemitism of the 19th century migrated to the Middle East and blended with pre-existing Judeophobia (which was not as virulent as the European variant). Compounded with the growing Palestine conflict and Arab frustration at losing out in the process of modernization, Arab peoples looked for a scapegoat. Here is where the imported European antisemitism comes in. Rather than blame themselves for falling behind the West in terms of economic and scientific progress, it was easier for Arab elites to blame "the Jews" or "the West" controlled by a Jewish conspiracy. Religious leaders and authoritarian political leaders (such as Nassar) resented that the Jews thrived in the West and that Israel became a successful, wealthy, democratic state while Arab states grew ever more poor. THESIS part 2: The Muslim Middle East distilled racial and conspiracy theories and -- in the post-Holocaust world -- reimported them to Europe. Why do Europeans buy them? There are some radical right-wing antisemites left in Europe, and their nationalism and xenophobia merges with antisemitism. This is particularly true in eastern Europe, Germany, and England. *However*, more dangerous is the fact that antisemitism has found favor with many on the political Left. The generation of 1968 (anti-war demonstrators, envionmentalists, Greens, etc.) is now in power in Europe. Many of its members have not abandoned their anti-Americanism and excessive admiration for so-called Third World liberation movements, the PLO included. They distrust America; they resent America's support for Israel; they perceive Israel to be an apartheid state or genocidal regime; and they claim that American Jews control the policy of the US government. Anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism. Hatred of Israel and its policies translates into dislike of Jews in Europe. Another important factor is the very large Muslim population in contemporary Europe. Jews make up a minuscule percentage of Europe's population, but countries like France are 10% Muslim, and that percentage is increasing. That's a lot of voters in the future. For now, however, Muslim Europeans are disproportionately unemployed and resentful. Their frustration and anti-Israeli sentiment has led to numerous attacks on European Jews. STRENGTH: Schoenfeld's catalogue of incidents is not exhaustive, but it is very thorough. Moreover, his thesis seems to be very compelling. That European antisemitism migrated to the Middle East, has returned, and mixed with preexisting attitudes on the far Right and not-so-far Left is certainly food for thought. This reader found his thesis quite convincing overall. WEAKNESS: This reader, who is a professional academic, found Schoenfeld's documentation to be disappointing. An example: "in one recent novel, the antihero, a Jewish entrepreneur, is presented sipping champagne while contemplating a plan to take the blood and organs of healthy [Russians] and to sell them to medical centers in Israel" (p. 75). While this sentence is footnoted, the note refers to a report in which the novel is mentioned, not to the novel itself. I wanted to know the name of the novel and the author, not the name of some EU or WJC report on antisemitism. Unfortunately, the book is full of such citations. Often, one does not find the original item, but rather secondary literature about it. Schoenfeld has certainly done his research, but it seems that he has trolled Associate Press reports, newspaper articles, websites, and NGO reports rather than archives and academic sociological studies. This may not bother the casual reader, but an academic would demand more rigorous documentation. (Hence, only four stars.) CAVEAT: Some readers will not agree with Schoenfeld's personal politics or views on the West Bank/Gaza question, but I think that one may overlook these aspects of his book and still learn a lot, regardless of one's political persuasion.
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Summary: Systematic, reasoned dose of reality
Review: Gabriel Schoenfeld has, in "The Return of Anti-Semitism," provided the world with an exploration of the current state of global anti-semitism. Under Schoenfeld's steady and thorough analysis, it is clear that a planet with 1 billion adherents of Islam is now a world which stokes high the fires of anti-semitism. What is clear is that institutional anti-semitism that the world thinks died in 1945, in the ashes of Nazi Europe, has been reborn in the modern Islamic world. Nazism, in its heyday, had many admirers in the Islamic world of its day, and that tradition of hate continued unbroken with the totalitarian regimes of the Islamic world to this day. It is no mere coincidence that the Baath Parties of Syria and Iraq are essentially National Socialist in nature. Schoenfeld documents how Islamic leaders continue to express admiration for Hitler, a concept that has been taken to its extreme by the Islamic radicals, who today see themselves as completing the unfinished business of annihilation of Jews and their modern nation-state, Israel. There is a chilling interview with an Islamic toddler documented in this book, which has this infant expressing hate for Jews, since the Quran describes them as descended from "monkeys and pigs." It is clear that while President Bush is careful to draw distinctions between moderate and radical Islam, that the entire Islamic culture is steeped in anti-Jewish propaganda and education that is taken whole-cloth from the virulent polemics of the Nazis, including the blood libels that Jews engage in human sacrifices, and the notorious Russian-originated forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." A recent Eqyptian television series on the Protocols was aired recently throughout the Islamic world, and it was marketed as containing accurate and factual information. The Islamic mass media contributes to this virulent anti-semitism by stating as fact hate-filled lies, such as, for example, that Jews working in the World Trade Center were told to not report to work on 9/11. It is abundantly clear from this book that to the Islamic mindset, brainwashed by its culture, media and education, the only appropriate future for Israel is annihilation. Thus, looking at the current Roadmap for Peace, it is clear that the Palestinian Authority can never let itself have peace with Israel, and that any hudna's or "treaties" are merely tactical pauses in the continuing Islamic drive for the elimination of the Jewish State. Extending the thesis of this book to current events it is clear that Prime Minister Sharon's current initative of making unilateral moves consistent with the Roadmap is the only logical avenue available to the Israelis -- there is not, and there will never be, a truely peaceful palestinian entity, that would make a real and lasting peace with Israel. The propaganda, educational and financial machinery of Islam deliberately keeps the war against Israel going, primarily to divert their peoples' attention from the squallor that their dictatorships have fostered. With their people energized to struggle against Israel, helped by the artificial continuation of a palestinian refugee mentality, the Islamic leadership has set in motion an eternal conflict against Israel that will only end with that state's annihilation. Scheoenfeld also chronicles how modern Europe has been reinfected with this new Islamic-based anti-semitism. Once the province of Nazi remnants, marginalized neo-Nazi misfits and other right-wing crackpots, European anti-semitism is reborn as a left-wing critique on the alleged excesses of Israeli military power, as used on the "oppressed" and hapless palestinian "innocents." Islamic anti-Israel and anti-semitic propaganda is taken in hook-line-and-sinker, while the slaughter of Israeli civilians at the hand of fanatical Islamic suicide bombers is ignored. For these Europeans, increasingly held intellectually hostage by their growing unassimilated Islamic populations, the new realities of the Arab-Israeli conflict have cleansed anti-semitism from its now-taboo Nazi roots, and made the open expression of a virulent and libelous anti-semitism an acceptable pasttime. The result has been a loosening of European inhibitions, which, coupled with a new upsurge in attacks on European Jews and their institutions, has fostered a level of anti-semitic hate-mongering unseen since the Nazi era. This book is potent warning to all those people of good will who seek a peaceful world, that Islamic anti-semitism is deep-rooted and intractable, and that short of wholesale regime-change throughout the Islamic world, this fact of Islamic culture has and will continue to poison any efforts for a genuine peace in the Middle East. In this light, the hope held out for Islamic democratization and de-radicalization, in the wake of the US-led overthow of the Afghani and Iraqi regimes, is slim indeed. The poison of modern anti-semitism is loose in the world at levels not seen since Germany, 58 years ago. It is incumbent on all people of good will to assimilate the information in this book, and to work for a world with genuine peace, and where no group seeks the annihilation on another group, and where hate-mongering, with its outright lies, is no more. Gabriel Schoenfeld's book is vitally important to gain a true understanding of the large and powerful cultural and political forces that uncompromisingly seek the goal of the annihilation of the Jewish people, and of Israel, the world's only Jewish State and the only true friend that America has in that region of the world.
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Summary: Disturbing. Required Reading !
Review: I purchased this exceptionally, well written, in-depth study further to my own research into anti-Semitism (hatred of the Jews) spanning many years. Replete with specific references, the text of this work provides a compelling and deeply disturbing investigation as to how, virtually unnoticed by large elements of the International community, a lethal hatred of the Jews has once more come to the fore and depicts how it has been so influential in manipulating public attitudes through the media & also it's influence within political realms pertaining to circumstances in the International arena. At the outset, the book declares that to anyone even modestly acquainted with current events, it is readily apparent that the Islamic World is today the epicentre of what is cited as a particularly virulent brand of anti-Semitic hatred. The reader is shown how throughout the Islamic world, Israel has been allegedly transformed from a country into a malignant force, cited as embodying every possible negative attribute - aggressor, usurper, occupier, corrupter, infidel, murderer and barbarian, with the Israelis themselves being allegedly viewed as foot-soldiers of the same dark force instead of human beings, parents, students, civilians, women & children. The book demonstrating how this hatred depicts the Jews themselves as constituting what is described as the sinister force behind almost every significant event in the World. Through a seemingly endless, inexhaustible supply of material, the historic and underlying causes of this irrational hatred are discussed. Individual readers must make up their own minds upon the many aspects of this investigation, some aspects of which may be seen as controversial by some. One issue examined is how Islamic anti-Semitism perhaps draws and meshes seamlessly with it's Christian and Nazi "cousins" in Europe where similar patterns of anti-Jewish hatred were practised, taught & richly developed for centuries in some areas of Europe. Further discussed is how such teachings may have found an entrance corridor and a sympathetic audience amongst the Arab/Islamic world surrounding the re-birth of Israel in 1948. Nazism's ideology cited as having been defeated on the battlefield but the book showing how named Arab leaders had already been thoroughly steeped in it's doctrines and eager to embrace it's ideological package in relation to the Jews. The study declaring that the Arab world's hatred of the Jews now equals that of Nazi Germany at it's peak and discusses how that seldom will you find anyone opposing or discrediting anti-Semitism in the Islamic world or even amongst it's supporters. References are also provided of the dissemination of hatred through official Arabic Government channels and publications where Jews are depicted as "apes and pigs" and the "worms of the entire World". In one example, tthe book illustrates how what are described as Iranian anti-Semitic propagandists, erase all distinctions among Israel, Zionism and the Jews. These sources cited as describing the State of Israel as being not merely Zionist but a "bunch of Jews" and that the ridding the World of this "bunch of Jews" is a prime Muslim obligation. Israel being further described by Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a "cancerous tumour that must be excised". In relation to the Palestinian-Israeli issue, the reader is shown clearly that central to the signing of the Oslo Accords was an agreement to cease the propagation of hatred towards the Jews, but that the hate has instead been constant and unceasing through the official Palestinian media as well as the schools and the entire Palestinian education system where an implacable hatred of Israel & the Jews is shown to be included in many school books. Alongside this, the reader is shown how the doctrine of Holocaust denial has been ever present reality. Something which the book reveals to have been reinforced by the recent Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, (cited as being portrayed by the West as a moderate & a suitable 'peace partner' for Israel), who is shown to have written a doctorate on Holocaust denial & the alleged secret relationship between Nazism and Zionism. The book illustrates whenever reference is made in the Islamic world to the Holocaust, it is nearly always in the context of the "final solution" not being final enough or that the Holocaust never occurred at all. The book, in no uncertain terms, declares that these passions in the Islamic World are not the end of the matter, with anti-Semitism also reawakening dramatically in Europe whilst also making unprecedented headway in the United States. Anti-Semitism cited as now finding ready acceptance on many college campuses and among the "opinion makers" of the media elite. Even a significant contingent of Jews are themselves shown to be promoting what are cited here as nakedly anti-Semitic ideas. The book declares that it is foolish to dismiss the potential of this new anti-Semitism outlining that few observers comprehended the depth of Hitler's obsession with this hatred of the Jews until the World was confronted with a catastrophe of unprecedented dimensions. It being further illustrated that the modern day champions of this hatred either possess or are working assiduously to obtain weapons of mass destruction whilst simultaneously proclaiming their desire to murder Jews and destroy their State. Seldom has a book had such a profound effect upon me in recent years. Highly recommended. Five stars is not enough.
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Summary: lacks analysis and rigorous definition of anti-semitism
Review: I rarely write a bad review, but read this book because of its high Amazon rating and was terribly disappointed (I gave three stars because I do not think it is factually wrong): the title "The Return of Anti-Semitism" implied, to me, analysis of the causes of rising anti-semitic feeling which was entirely missing. There are three main sections: one for the Middle East, forEurope, and for America. Each section lists examples of anti-Semitism with only the most cursory analysis of how anti-Semitism arises. The few "causes" Schoenfeld mentions (for example Mohammed's struggles with some Jewish groups) are really just early examples of the phenomenon, not explanations of why the phenomenon arises. To say that this prejudice cannot be understood because it is "irrational" (as one reviewer commented) is to ignore history, which shows that prejudice thrives in some circumstances and withers in others.
The lack of analysis demonizes anti-semites and blocks the empathy necessary to communicate with them. For example, Schoenfeld gives pervasive Holocaust denial as type of Arabic anti-Semitism: Holocaust denial spares many Arabs the trouble of empathizing with the Jewish need for the homeland of Israel. However, Schoenfeld misses the implication that Holocaust denial is therefore _necessary_, to some degree, for the maintenance of virulent anti-Semitism. In other words, many Arabs believe that "if the Holocaust had happened" the actions of the Jewish people and of Israel would be more justified. An analysis of how Holocaust denial is maintained in such a large population could highlight ways to address the problem and mitigate the degree of anti-Semitism in the Middle East.
In fact much anti-Semitic vitriole found in the Muslim world is based on complete fabrications. It focuses on crimes, such as infanticide, reportedly central to Jewish ritual but abhorrent to Muslims (and to most people), as well as on the Sept. 11th bombings, which many Muslims maintain were perpetrated by Jews to generate prejudice against the Arabic world. The implication is that those Arabs who do wish to fuel a burning hatred of Jews must re-invent the Jews as monsters in order to maintain popular support. Schoenfeld misses this critical opportunity to ask how such mis-information lodges itself and how the Arabic moral sense could be redirected, with better information, toward constructive ends.
The author also demonized critics of the nation Israel as "anti-Semites" (even if the critics are Jewish). He therefore finds American academia to be crawling with anti-Semites. I was startled to find that my mother-in-law, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, qualifies as anti-Semitic by this definition. To define critics of Israel as "anti-Semites" robs the label of moral imperative. To simply provide a book-length list of anti-Jewish incidents ignores the post-Holocaust moral imperative to not simply observe our world, but to understand and to change it.
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Summary: A report on the popularity of antisemitic ideas today
Review: In the 1930s, antisemitism was a serious problem. It manifested itself in widespread defamation of Jews, attacks on European Jews in particular, a series of horrible anti-Jewish laws, and an environment in which the combination of attacks on Jews and anti-Jewish propaganda caused Jews in general to become increasingly despised. So despised that it was possible to murder millions of them in World War 2.
That is not exactly what is happening today. For the most part, Jews are faring well, and very few have been murdered. But anti-Jewish propaganda (much of it "antizionist") is widespread, especially in the Arab world. This book describes where things stand, and it notes the intensity of anti-Jewish propaganda in the Arab world, clearly showing that "the parallels between Nazism and the current Arab-Muslim brand of anti-Semitism are striking." It also shows how Arabs are training many of their children to be antisemites.
A chapter on Europe shows a striking correlation between Arab attacks on Israelis and local attacks on European Jews. I hadn't realized the extent to which terrorist attacks inspire violence elsewhere, but the author also explained that "the September 11 terrorist attack on America led to a sharp increase in European violence against Jews," with dramatically increased incidents of violence in England and France in the months of September and October, 2001.
The author says that antisemitism is a grossly delusional view of the world and its implications continue to reach far beyond the fate of the Jews. I agree, and that's a reason I think this book is important for everyone.
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Summary: There are none so blind as those who will not see
Review: It is a human trait that we do not notice trends and movements until AFTER they have arrived. How else to explain the refusal of Jews to leave Germany before WWII or currently, the blindness in regard to the growing anti-Semitism we see everywhere around us? Anti-Semitism has migrated from Christianity and settled in with Islam and the Left. At one time no respectable person would dare claim to be anti-semitic - it was only the uneducated, the ignorant, the fools. As noted by the author, suddenly it's in to be prejudiced and strangely intellectuals are leading the charge - from European capitals to college campuses. While some of this, the author notes, started as anti-Israeli feelings it has quickly evolved into an anti-Jewish message that is barely concerned with providing intellectual cover. And it brings nary a protest! General Zinni was interviewed and named those responsibile for the Iraq mess. His answer was telling - he named five Jews in the administration - not the VP, not Bush, not Rice or Rumsfeld. No, five Jews. When this was pointed out he stated that he did not know the faith of the five, sopmething so hard to believe as to be dismissed out of hand. The real story is that he sought to blame Jews for our troubles (shades of the Black Plague) and nearly got away with it. Not suprisingly he is pro-Arab. This was followed by dottering Sen Hollings who woke up to blame the war on "Jewish interests" then said he was not blaming the Jews - Go figure. The book does not answer the psychological or emotional reasons for this trend perhaps because there is no answer for irrational thinking. The answer is found in ideology. The European (and increasingly American) Left supports the Arab cause in the ongoing Middle East battle. The question of WHy an intellectual would choose religious fundamentalists, thugs and terrorists over a Western-oriented society that allows dissent is a question that must be answered in another book. But the fact remains, as the author notes, that anti-Semitism is a function of most Arab governments and this brainwashing has spilled over to its inhabitants who regularly march in protest - not for political, economic or religious freedom. No, crowds proclaim their hatred of Jews and their fervent wish to exterminate them. The book is well-documented but given Zinni, Hollings, NPR, the Cairo Times and the hate spewing from Damascus, Pakistan and Iran and the voice of terrorists murdering "Jews" on film, exactly, uh, how detailed must one get? This is an important book that should be updated frequently with the latest signs of this most disturbing of trends.
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Summary: There are none so blind as those who will not see
Review: It is a human trait that we do not notice trends and movements until AFTER they have arrived. How else to explain the refusal of Jews to leave Germany before WWII or currently, the blindness in regard to the growing anti-Semitism we see everywhere around us? Anti-Semitism has migrated from Christianity and settled in with Islam and the Left. At one time no respectable person would dare claim to be anti-semitic - it was only the uneducated, the ignorant, the fools. As noted by the author, suddenly it's in to be prejudiced and strangely intellectuals are leading the charge - from European capitals to college campuses. While some of this, the author notes, started as anti-Israeli feelings it has quickly evolved into an anti-Jewish message that is barely concerned with providing intellectual cover. And it brings nary a protest! General Zinni was interviewed and named those responsibile for the Iraq mess. His answer was telling - he named five Jews in the administration - not the VP, not Bush, not Rice or Rumsfeld. No, five Jews. When this was pointed out he stated that he did not know the faith of the five, sopmething so hard to believe as to be dismissed out of hand. The real story is that he sought to blame Jews for our troubles (shades of the Black Plague) and nearly got away with it. Not suprisingly he is pro-Arab. This was followed by dottering Sen Hollings who woke up to blame the war on "Jewish interests" then said he was not blaming the Jews - Go figure. The book does not answer the psychological or emotional reasons for this trend perhaps because there is no answer for irrational thinking. The answer is found in ideology. The European (and increasingly American) Left supports the Arab cause in the ongoing Middle East battle. The question of WHy an intellectual would choose religious fundamentalists, thugs and terrorists over a Western-oriented society that allows dissent is a question that must be answered in another book. But the fact remains, as the author notes, that anti-Semitism is a function of most Arab governments and this brainwashing has spilled over to its inhabitants who regularly march in protest - not for political, economic or religious freedom. No, crowds proclaim their hatred of Jews and their fervent wish to exterminate them. The book is well-documented but given Zinni, Hollings, NPR, the Cairo Times and the hate spewing from Damascus, Pakistan and Iran and the voice of terrorists murdering "Jews" on film, exactly, uh, how detailed must one get? This is an important book that should be updated frequently with the latest signs of this most disturbing of trends.
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Summary: A scathing and documented indictment
Review: The Return Of Anti-Semitism by Gabriel Schoenfeld (Senior Editor of "Commentary" magazine), is a scathing and documented indictment of an embedded and embittered hatred of the Jewish race and faith throughout most of the world today and with particularly reference to the Muslim circles and communities of Europe, and even within the United States itself. From scrutiny of the re-emergence of anti-semitic traits thought to have ended with World War II; to vicious anti-Jewish sentiments voiced by the "progressive" elements of society rather than simply a distractive justification among downtrodden, The Return Of Anti-Semitism is a sharply worded and quite timely wake-up call of an insidious and growing danger within the democracies and nation states comprising contemporary Western Civilization.
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Summary: A scathing and documented indictment
Review: The Return Of Anti-Semitism by Gabriel Schoenfeld (Senior Editor of "Commentary" magazine), is a scathing and documented indictment of an embedded and embittered hatred of the Jewish race and faith throughout most of the world today and with particularly reference to the Muslim circles and communities of Europe, and even within the United States itself. From scrutiny of the re-emergence of anti-semitic traits thought to have ended with World War II; to vicious anti-Jewish sentiments voiced by the "progressive" elements of society rather than simply a distractive justification among downtrodden, The Return Of Anti-Semitism is a sharply worded and quite timely wake-up call of an insidious and growing danger within the democracies and nation states comprising contemporary Western Civilization.
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