Anti-Semitism, painfully widespread but not everywhere

Anti-Semitism is not everywhere. The Anti-Defamation League reported last year that “the level of Americans who hold pernicious and pervasive anti-Semitism attitudes has remained at decades-long historical lows.” Scores of local and national governments and civic organizations in the U.S. and Europe have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s working definition of anti-Semitism.

Even in the Arab world things are changing, as evidenced by the inclusion of Jewish history and culture in Moroccan school curricula and the letter in which 123 Arab and Palestinian intellectuals write that “no expression of hatred for Jews as Jews should be tolerated anywhere in the world.”

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