(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) - Meir Litvak While for long periods the Jews fared better in the Islamic world than in Christian countries, Jews were never treated equally under Moslem rule. In the second half of the 19th century, under the accelerated European penetration of the Moslem world, many Jews were protected by the Europeans and Moslem hatred began to develop against the Jews who had benefited more from the Western penetration. European anti-Semitism was brought to the Middle East by Christian intellectuals who taught in Church and European schools. In 1894, before the creation of the Zionist movement, the publication in Arabic of The Talmud Jew by the German anti-Semite Eugen Duhring - which popularized the concept of the 'Jewish threat' - can be considered the beginning of modern Arab anti-Semitism.
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