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The most prevalent shades of anti-Semitism

‘In my view, Islamic anti-Semitism is by far the most dynamic and threatening form of anti- Semitism existing at present in the contemporary world.’

Robert S. Wistrich
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Hansjörg Müller, editor of the ‘Baseler Zeitung,’ a popular Germanlanguage newspaper in Basel, Switzerland, interviews Prof. Robert Wistrich. With their permission, the interview is reprinted here

In your encyclopedic work, A Lethal Obsession. Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (Random House, 2010), you present Islamist anti-Semitism as an existential danger to modern civilization. Could you explain?

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