Hating some of one's neighbors is rather universal feature of humanity and is not confined to hating Jews. It is easy, however to hate Jews because of many things. Jews created Christianity, they even provided it with son of God. Without the Bible Islam and Koran would have been impossible. Interestingly there is no antisemitism outside the predominantly Christian and Islam nations. Jews exist thousands of years and are dispersed. World figures that are both adored and hated, such as Marx, Freud and Einstein were Jewish. Some Jews are rich. Many of them adapted to modernity faster than gentiles, certainly than the Arabs. They built a democratic modern state out of nothing. They have strong military and intelligence services and are not hesitant of using them. They are interesting. Czeslaw Milosz, who apart of being a Nobel Prize poet, was a professor of Russian Literature, wrote that antisemitism was not a major part of Dostojevksi's personality, but hating the Poles was. Nobody remembers that Dostojevski hated Poles, everybody knows that he was antisemite. Antisemitism is multi faceted. It looks like the killer in Holocaust Museum studied thoroughly Sartre's book and became a model antisemite, but antisemitism comes in many shades of grey, which reinforce one the other. Maurice Blanchot wrote to Emmanuel Levinas that he left the organizing committee of 1968 students "revolt," because the Left was anti-Israeli. He added the Left is not anitsemitic but the outcome is the same, and antisemites have now respected allies. Because of that fighting antisemitism by itself is not enough.
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