ANTI-SEMITISM IS THE CHILLING NEW NORMAL
ANTI-SEMITISM IS THE CHILLING NEW NORMAL Please note: The following text has been taken from Bridges For Peace magazine, ‘Dispatch From Jerusalem’ dated August 2019, volume 44, number 4. www.bridgesforpeace.com . Your Israel Connection. Article written by Vice President, Cheryl Hauer. Used by permission from Bridges For Peace, Australia. Historian Paul Johnson has said, “What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia, is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis make sense.” Anti-Semitism goes by many names; bigotry, discrimination, prejudice, intolerance. Most often it falls in that broad category of ‘racism’, which has been defined as prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Historically, victims of racism have often been poor, those who as a collective were unab
