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The Talmud (with the Kabbalah) is Judaism's holiest book

The supremacy of the Talmud over the Bible in the Israeli state may also be seen in the case of the black Ethiopian Falasha. Ethiopians are knowledgeable of the Old Testament. However, their religion is so ancient it pre-dates the Scribes' Talmud, of which the Ethiopians have no knowledge. "The problem is that Ethiopian Jewish tradition goes no further than the Bible or Torah; the later Talmud and other commentaries that form the basis of modern traditions never came their way." ³²³ Because they are not traffickers in Talmudic tradition, the black Ethiopians are discriminated against and have been forbidden by the Israelis to perform marriages, funerals and other services in the Israeli state. Joseph D. Soloveitchik was the "unchallenged leader" of Orthodox Judaism and one of the top international authorities on halakhah. Soloveitchik was responsible for instructing and ordaining more than 2,000 rabbis, "an entire generation" of Judaic leadership. New York Times religion reporter Ari Goldman described the basis of the rabbi's authority: "Soloveitchik came from a long line of distinguished Talmudic scholars...Until his early 20s, he devoted himself almost exclusively to the study of the Talmud...He came to Yeshiva University's Elchanan Theological Seminary where he remained the preeminent teacher in the Talmud...He held the title of Leib Merkin Professor of Talmud...sitting with his feet crossed in front of a table bearing an open volume of the Talmud." ³²⁴

Nowhere does Mr. Goldman refer to Soloveitchik's knowledge of the Bible as the basis for being one of the leading authorities on God's law. The rabbi's credentials are all predicated upon his mastery of the Talmud. Other studies are clearly secondary. Britain's Jewish Chronicle of March 26, 1993 states that in religious school (yeshiva), students are "devoted to the Talmud to the exclusion of everything else." Nearly fifteen years after Ari Goldman's plaudits were published, Rabbi Soloveitchik continues to be feted in the most lavish terms in the Times: "Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik...(is) arguably the most important Orthodox rabbi in 20th-century America...Within the Orthodox sector, he had been so revered as a philosopher, Talmud scholar and teacher

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of young rabbis that he was known, in worshipful tones, as The Rav, The Rabbi, a proper noun implying there was no equal." ³²⁵ The intent of this New York Times article was to drum up support for an independently funded and produced documentary film promoting and applauding Soloveitchik's life and work. The New York Times regularly acts as a public relations firm for rabbis, Judaism and the Talmud; this is a peculiar mission for an avowedly secular newspaper, especially so in light of the racism and hatred which the Talmud embodies. The filmmaker behind a documentary movie about Soloveitchik, 31-year-old Ethan Isenberg, is the product of a Talmudic education in a high school yeshiva and another year of Talmud study in the Israeli state. He is the beneficiary, courtesy of the Times, of thousands of dollars worth of free promotional publicity for himself and his movie ("Lonely Man of Faith"): "...the documentary has been shown at film festivals in the United States, Israel and Canada. But...has yet to be picked up for cable, public television or art-house release..." ³²⁶ There's the diktat to TV executives and movie distributors: broadcast and distribute this movie. How fortunate to be an independent Talmudic filmmaker promoting your movie about a major Talmudic-Zionist rabbi. The future of your Talmudic project is guaranteed by the flagship newspaper of the American media.

The Times continues its sales pitch "...its quality has struck knowledgeable observers, 'I thought the film was very fine,' said Jonathan D. Sarna of Brandeis University, a leading historian of American Jewry. While Rabbi Soloveitchik's roles as Talmudist and philosopher 'are impossible to translate to the screen,' Dr. Sarna continued, 'the film does give viewers a sense of why The Rav was revered in his lifetime and continues to inspire modern Orthodox Jews to this day."

This "reporting" is representative of the majority of the coverage which the New York Times accords Talmudic Judaism, which it almost invariably presents in a gauzy aura of reverence and profound esteem, very much like Martin Buber and Elie Wiesel have done. Meanwhile, Bible-faithful Christians are viewed with suspicion by the Times, their theologians and educators seldom presented with the sort of uncritical, misty-eyed commendation with which the life and legacy of Soloveitchik is graced. Here

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again is the Master Race egotism of the Zionist and Talmudic mentality seeping into the commons. The unspoken assumption is that Judaism is simply God's religion, not subject to the scathing criticism and irreverent sarcasm with which the Times reports on conservative Protestants and Catholics, and Muslims faithful to their Koran. Whereas Rabbi Soloveitchik's allegiance to the Israeli state and the Talmud, and his hatred of Catholic priests ("When I see a galach [priest] I see a murderer"), ³²⁷ is simply not an issue for the NY Times, the axiom being that the Talmud is benevolent in the hands of so distinguished a rabbinic sage. The New Testament and the Koran, on the other hand, when wielded by adherents with the kind of strict loyalty with which "The Rav" taught and expounded the Talmud and the Israeli cause, are highly suspect in the eyes of the Times, which reports on such non-Judaic religious groups, especially when they are independent of the Israeli agenda, with barely concealed contempt, along with vigorous appeals from "moderates" for these conservative Christians and "radical" Muslims to adjust their beliefs in line with NY Times standards of rabbinic and Zionist correctness, if they want to be considered decent and respectable. Most of the rest of the American media follows the lead the of the NY Times in this matter.

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The Employment of the term "Antisemitism" as a Weapon in the War of Ideas

Apologists for Orthodox Judaism become defensive when Christians or gentiles critically examine the Talmud. The slightest skeptical comment is accused of being "antisemitic." This catchword has been so overworked it has become meaningless. This neologism was concocted by Wilhelm Marr, a hater of Judaics on the basis of their race, not their religion. His term is the product of the scientism of the 19th century. Moshe Zimmerman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem comments on one of Marr's principal works, Der Sieg des Judenthums Uber das Germanenthum ("The Victory of Judaism over Germanism," 1879), "...it is an attempt at a socio-cultural history of the development of Jewish hegemony in the world in general and in Germany in particular, without blaming this development on the Jewish religion. Marr's school...was a new paganism, was anti-Christian...." ³²⁸ Marr viewed Judaics "scientifically," as a biological entity, an eternal tribe, a racial species. Their religion was not the issue for him. This was precisely the opposite of the gospel of New Testament Christianity and all those who remain faithful to it: Judaics were only admonished in so far as they were advocates of the religion of the Pharisees. Their race was not the issue. As Charles D. Provan has written, "For the Christian, one's so-called 'race' has no bearing on his standing with God. So our attack on the Talmud is not based on race. We Christians are followers of Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a Jew according to the flesh. We reject the claim of'racial Jews' to be 'the chosen people,' but this by no means makes us view their race as evil. It is not evil; it is irrelevant."³²⁹ It is an act of extraordinarily brazen intellectual dishonesty to term Christians who expose the Talmud, "antisemitic."

Marr invented the term "anti-semitism" in October, 1879 when he founded the Anti-Semitic League. "...Marr, in his 1879 writings, consciously

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used the terms 'Judaism' and 'Germanism' as main terms, and 'Semitism' and 'Aryanism' as secondary terms. Marr absorbed these secondary terms from the scientific jargon which had developed during the 1870s...If Marr was troubled by any term, it was not by 'Germanism' but by 'Judaism,' which bore such a clear religious connotation. Since Marr's avowed stance in 1879, consistent with his theories, was 'antireligious,' he needed a term which would clearly indicate that the Jews were a racial unit. Marr apparently felt in his 1879 anti-Jewish writings that the content of the essays and the use of the term 'Semitism'...would impart a new, nonreligious, connotation to the term 'anti-Jewish'...the term 'anti-semitism'...is considered by historians as an innovation in the transition from the religious basis of hatred of Jews to the racial basis..." ³³⁰ Marr's goal in devising the term anti-semitism was to "separate" from Christian opponents of Judaics by distinguishing between them and opponents of the Judaic "race," by denominating the latter as "anti-semitism." ³³¹

The mania to appear scientific by adopting technical jargon, was shared by Marr's supposed enemies, who eventually adopted his term as a means for lumping all those who take exception to either Judaism, the Talmud, the rabbinate and the Sanhedrin, or Zionism and Israeli colonialism and occupation, as "antisemitism." This is a flagrantly erroneous mishmash, but its use lends an air of objective social research and taxonomy to the campaign to demonize Christians faithful to Jesus Christ's gospel witness, as a species of rock-crawling insect, the "antisemite." Because this term has subliminal negative associations with goose-stepping Nazis, ranting demagogues, cemetery vandals, Aryan supremacists etc., the media can take a Christian who steadfastly exposes Phariseeism in its modern incarnation of Orthodox Judaism and by tarring him (or her) with the "antisemitic" slur, turn him into a neo-Nazi, gravestone-tipping, swastika-painting synagogue vandal,

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just because he gives the same warning about Orthodox rabbis that Jesus Christ gave concerning first century Pharisees. The employment of the term "antisemitism" against Christian scholars and evangelists who reject racism is another one of the brilliant deceits by which Judaism maintains its hold over humanity. Not everyone has bought into this deception, however. By way of illustration, the British magazine The Economist in its Aug. 24, 1935 issue, correctly described Adolf Hitler's movement as follows: "The Nazi party stalwarts...have all been leading an anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Protestant...crusade." The Economist makes the proper distinction between race-based opposition to Judaics on the part of the Nazis who were also, at the highest levels, anti-Christian. This is not to say that no heretical Christians ever became Nazis or ever identified themselves with "antisemitism." But Christianity as preached by Christ and His apostles and faithfully adhered to by His followers cannot be race-based and cannot object to Judaic persons on the basis of their race. But it has been very important to the rabbis and the Zionists to conceal this distinction in order to emphasize their own alleged blamelessness by promoting the notion that they are being exposed not mainly because of their anti-Christ ideology but by an accident of birth, their having been born of Judaic ethnicity. Seen in this perspective, Christian watchfulness toward Judaism becomes an irrational objection to a biological condition which Judaic persons cannot change and did not choose.

To question whether six million Judaics died in World War II or six hundred thousand, and whether the cause of death was "gas chambers" or gunfire and typhus, is "antisemitism." To question the Talmudic roots of the Zionist occupation of Palestinian land is "antisemitism." Take for example, the "Teachers' Guide on Antisemitism." On December 19, 2007, a "teachers' guide" entitled Addressing Antisemitism: Why and How — A Guide for Educators, was issued in Jerusalem for distribution around the world in thirteen different languages. The "guide" is the product of the Warsaw, Poland-based "Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights" and Yad Vashem, "the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority" in the Israeli state. "The guide aims to provide educators with practical suggestions, materials and background information on dealing with contemporary antisemitism, ranging from Holocaust denial to expressions of

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anti-Zionism, and including the use of antisemitic stereotypes..." ³³² "Anti-semitism" has also been classed as a mental illness. For example Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin in his book, Anti-Semitism: A Disease of the Mind: A Psychiatrist Explores the Psychodynamics of a Symbol Sickness.

This demonization of investigative research and free inquiry in the name of the an anthropological and medical category of mentally diseased inhuman hatred, i.e. the scientific-sounding taxonomy of "anti-semitism," has been used widely by the Left, which was very much enamored of a "scientific" appellation for Socialism itself. Soviet Communist leader Leon Trotsky in a 1937 interview in the New York Judaic newspaper, Daily Forward, stated: "The longer the rotten bourgeoisie society lives, the more and more barbaric will anti-Semitism become everywhere." The first law passed after the Communists seized power in Russia made "antisemitism" a crime punishable by death. (Izvestia, July 27,1918).

In March, 1919 Soviet dictator V.I. Lenin stated, "Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed Tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The Tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organized pogroms against the Jews....Only the most ignorant and downtrodden people can believe the lies and slander that are spread about the Jews. This is a survival of ancient feudal times...This ancient, feudal ignorance is passing away; the eyes of the people are being opened. It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries....Shame on accursed Tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews." ³³³

"Lenin's Bolshevik party, like Russia's other revolutionary parties in 1917, comprised many Jews...cruelly persecuted under czarism who came to play leading roles in the Soviet regime...Russia's Jewish minority (lent) valuable assistance to Lenin's beleaguered regime...In Lenin's day overt expressions of anti-Semitism were virtually synonymous with anti-Communism....the traditionally anti-Semitic Russian Orthodox Church..." ³³⁴

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This phenomenon is not confined to the Left, of course. Various Right wing rabbinic and Zionist special interest groups operate front organizations that position themselves as scientific chroniclers of hatred under the heading of "antisemitism." By including "antisemitism" in the name of their institute or organization, they hope to lend to their sectarian activities the tincture of systematic empirical discipline, by appearing to be a branch of sociology, anthropology, criminology and psychiatry, rather than a weapon for the advancement of the politics of Zionism and the religion of Judaism. By putting Christians faithful to Jesus, under a sort of laboratory microscope they render them a pathological bacteria. The scientist does not converse, dialogue or seriously entertain the views of such an organism, rather he dissects and eliminates it. Organizations and institutions that embody this subterfuge are found in governments including the United States, as well as so-called "NGOs" funded by Zionist plutocrats. "The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism" is an Israeli government espionage agency that "monitors" the "...anti-semitic activities throughout the world. It coordinates the struggle against this phenomenon with various government bodies and Jewish organizations around the world." There are dozens of powerful, and wealthy organizations that fulfill a similar function: The "Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism," based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and "The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism," headquartered at Tel Aviv University.

The United States Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., an arm of the U.S. government, specializes in attacking authentic Christianity as "antisemitism." On Dec. 18, 2003 the museum featured a special two-part panel presentation, videotaped for posterity which "...explored the particular history of antisemitism in the German Protestant and Catholic churches...panelists looked at...antisemitism in Christian churches..." ³³⁵

The U.S. government's Holocaust Museum sets as the date for the beginning of "anti-semitism" at just over 2,000 years ago which, coincidentally, just also happens to be the approximate length of time since Jesus Christ was born: "Sometimes called 'the longest hatred,' antisemitism has persisted in many forms for over two thousand years. Yet, antisemitism

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did not end with the Holocaust. Whether expressed through hate speech, Holocaust denial, or violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, antisemitism is on the rise today." ³³⁶ The "Holocaust Museum" has a special section devoted to "Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries." ³³⁷ The only Christianity acceptable to the US Holocaust Museum is an attenuated version that betrays the gospel while retaining the name Christian. Obviously, any museum devoted to a presentation of the roots of the persecution of the Palestinians deriving from the ideology of Orthodox Judaism, would be denounced by the Establishment as a hateful, criminal operation, but the operators of the "Holocaust Museum" in our nation's capitol, are free to make just such an association between Nazi crimes and the ideology of New Testament Christians. At the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Zionists have the superior advantage, and special rights to defame others.

The Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (SEAS) is part of the U.S. State Department. "It advocates U.S. policy on anti-Semitism both in the U.S. and internationally....SEAS develops and implements policies and projects to support efforts to combat anti-Semitism." According to the State Department's Fact Sheet, "Working Definition' of Anti-Semitism: Anti-[S]emitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical...manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward...Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. In addition, such manifestations could also target the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. Anti-Semitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for 'why things go wrong.' It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits. Contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to: ...Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as a collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions...Denying the fact, scope,

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mechanisms (e.g., gas chambers), or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust). Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations. Examples of the ways in which anti-Semitism manifests itself with regard to the state of Israel taking into account the overall context could include: Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination (e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor). Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation. Using the symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis...Anti-Semitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (e.g., denial of the Holocaust or distribution of anti-Semitic materials in some countries)." ³³⁸

From this statement of the U.S. government's official definition of "anti-semitism" we find a description mostly consonant with the views of Communist dictator Lenin. No distinction is made between those who hate Judaics because of their ethnicity and those who love Judaics enough to tell them the truth in fidelity to the New Testament gospel. Moreover, the U.S. government describes as an act of "anti-semitism" making statements about "Jews controlling the media" and "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis." Rather ominously, the report on the definition of "anti- semitism" concludes with a reference to these acts as "criminal...in some countries," leaving the reader to ponder what sort of "emergency measure" or "Patriot Act" might be enacted in the United States in the future in order to criminalize expressions about who killed Jesus, who may have an inordinate influence over the media or what Israelis actions in the Gaza ghetto are comparable to Nazi atrocities in the Warsaw ghetto.

For those who believe that the First Amendment to the Constitution forbids such criminalization, we would remind them of the Federal government's evolving understanding of the power of the president in

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"wartime": "Some of the most tense exchanges at the (Judiciary) hearing centered on whether the president must strictly abide by provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a 1978 law that governs clandestine spying in the United States. (Attorney General Michael) Mukasey suggested that the president can ignore a law, including the surveillance act, if it unduly impinges on his constitutional authority as commander in chief during wartime." ³³⁹

Most of us have heard this "wartime" alibi repeated in various situations where we are told of the necessity to surrender our immemorial rights in return for "security." We have not heard or read of a single major media reporter or pundit challenging this "Commander in chief in wartime" alibi for a Big Brother police state. The Constitution requires that Congress must declare war. If Congress declares war, then we are in "wartime." As of this writing, there has been no such formal declaration by Congress in accord with the Constitution. All Congress has done is issue a type of memo of understanding for military action by George W. Bush when he was president. This does not meet the Constitutional criterion for a declaration of war. Therefore, under the Constitution we are not in wartime and no president has a right to make himself king or dictator on the pretext of war. We are a nation of laws, not media supposition or Congressional inference. The Constitution is precise on this and the Constitutional requirement for a declaration of war has simply not in any manner been fulfilled. "Wartime" as understood by the nation's media and politicians is a de facto state of affairs that has existed since World War II. Supposed "temporary" war measures instituted during WWII, the Korean conflict and Vietnam have never been rescinded. They are part of the bureaucratic fog of war that continues to expand the already bloated central government, even as George W, Bush in October, 2007 made, in connection with the people of Russia, a derogatory racist mention of a supposed "Russian gene" for central authority.

The Founders required a declaration of war, so that we would not enter into a fog of war; so that we would not engage in what Harry Elmer Barnes termed "perpetual war for perpetual peace." In other words, evolving into a central government on a permanent war footing that will swell ever more into the proportions of Leviathan based on nebulous and poorly defined concepts

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of enemies and states of war that never come to an end. Has anyone spoken of a forthcoming "peacetime" with regard to the so-called "war on terror"? Dick Cheney declared that it is a war that will endure for "generations." A band of wayward "public servants" seek to render the Federal government ever more lawless. The major media cooperate in the process. The "we are at war" thesis ignores Constitutional law while invoking the Constitution. If in time of war the law is anything the president says it is, then it does not seem like much of a stretch of the imagination, that having officially defined Christian statements about the murder of Christ and citizens' opinions about media ownership and Israeli war crimes, as a form of pathology ("anti-semitism") that has already been criminalized in "some countries" (like the former Soviet Union), the U.S. government will at some point in the name of the "war on terror" begin to terrorize "antisemites," as Lenin and Trotsky did. In 2006 the federal government's National Security Council classified those it calls "conspiracy theorists" as terrorists: "The terrorism we confront today springs from...(s)ubcultures of conspiracy and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated...and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances...." ³⁴⁰ In 2008 a study conducted by the Israeli-based "Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center," described comparisons of Israeli actions that are similar to racist Nazi atrocities, as a form of anti-semitism: "Among the central themes in contemporary Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism are...claims that Israel is carrying out a holocaust against the Palestinians, as well as the drawing of parallels between Israel and Nazi Germany, the study found." ^34]

The process of transforming embarrassing facts and inconvenient truths into a form of pathology and crime, begins with the "anti-semitism" label that was conceived by a self-confessed "anti-Semite." ³⁴² It has since been enthusiastically embraced by Zionist and Talmudic groups with pretensions to scientific objectivity. Like so many extravagant frauds however, this over-

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inflated balloon can be deflated with a single pin-prick, in this case delivered by the world chess champion, Bobby Fischer. When asked if he was "anti-semitic" Fischer answered, ^MI have nothing against Arabs."

The Oxford English Dictionary (1933) gives as one of the definitions of a Semite, "a person speaking a Semitic language as his native tongue." Among Semitic languages the Dictionary lists: Arabic, Assyrian and Hebrew. Anti-semitism, were it really a scientific term, would be defined as hatred toward Arabs and Assyrians, native speakers of a Semitic language, not just "Jews." But against this very basic observation is a large body of academic and professorial opinion which has helped to turn "antisemitism" into an industry. Here is but the tip of the iceberg: Almog, Shmuel: Antisemitism Through the Ages (Oxford, 1988; produced in association with the Vidal Sassoon Center). Berger, David, History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism (Philadelphia, 1997; originally delivered at a conference sponsored by the ADL [Anti-Defamation League]). Blech, Arthur, The Causes of Antisemitism: A Critique of the Bible (Prometheus Books, 2006); Bostom, Andrew G., The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism (Prometheus Books, 2008; "Bostom produces a vast literature of Middle Eastern Islamic antisemitism" -Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University). Brustein, William I., Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust. (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Fineberg, Michael, Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred (London, 2007). Harrison, Benjamin, The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion (Rowman & Littlefield 2006). Katz, Jacob, From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933. Harvard University Press, 1980). Kofii Anan et al., Confronting Anti-Semitism: Essays by Kofi A. Annan, Elie Wiesel (2006); Laqueur, Walter, The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day (Oxford University, 2006); Lazare, Bernard, Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (University of Nebraska, 1995). Litvinoff, Barnet, The Burning Bush: Anti-Semitism and World History (E.P. Dutton, 1988). Michael, Robert, Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the Present (2007). Poliakov, Leon, The History of Anti-Semitism.(University of Pennsylvania, 2003). Wistrich, Robert S., Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991).

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