The spectrum of anti-Semitic activities ranges from discrimination, slander, and verbal abuse via the structural anti-Semitism of many societies and cultures to physical violence against and persecution of Jews (Copyright: Patrick Lentz/flickr.com/
On May 24, 2017 scholars from New York, Tel Aviv, and Vienna will present papers on religious anti-Semitism at a symposium. International experts, amongst them Dina Porat from the University of Tel Aviv und Yad VaShem und Lawrence Schiffman of the New York University, discuss recent research findings in this field. Surveys indicate that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Austria and world wide. After the Shoah, a new anti-Semitism took hold in the modern world and combines new forms of Jew-hatred with old ones. The roots of anti-Semitism reach back to antiquity and continued to manifest themselves over the centuries both in the Islamic and western worlds. Today anti-Zionism often expressed with anti-Semitic motifs, plays a role not only in the Islamic world but also has an ever increasing presence in anti-Semitic agitation as a whole. The spectrum of anti-Semitic activities ranges from discrimination, slander, and verbal abuse via the structural anti-Semitism of many societies and cultures to physical violence against and persecution of Jews.
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