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Arab [anti-Semitism] isn’t confined to the fringes of society. Whereas in Israel, overt bigotry is scolded, ignored, or kept out of politics, mainstream Arab culture promotes extreme anti-Semitic ideas through schools, newspapers, television, popular culture, and official ideology.

Bernard Lewis’ classic book Semites and Anti-Semites provides insight into how this condition came to be. As he notes, [anti-Semitism] in Arab countries (and non-Arab Islamic states such as Iran) has risen as Jew-hating in the areas formerly known as Christendom has plummeted. For example, whatever one thinks of the extent of [anti-Semitism] still extant within the Catholic Church, most Westerners consider the 1964 decision by the Second Vatican Council to repudiate claims that Jews killed Christ to be a mark of progress, to say the least. In Islam, however, centuries of teaching that the Jews didn’t kill Christ have now given way to an embrace of the very claims Christians have renounced. When Vatican II convened, it was Arab and Muslim organizations that most vehemently opposed exculpating the Jews of deicide—the Quran notwithstanding.

In the 19th century, [anti-Semitism] became increasingly racialized. Notions that human beings belonged to different races, some superior to others. Under these notions, Jews (as well as Africans and others) were deemed to be biologically and thus immutably inferior to white or “Aryan” [Europeans].

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