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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-anti-semitism-is-once-again-on-the-march-in-europe/2015/02/02/9520ae7a-ab0d-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html?tid=HP_opinion?tid=HP_opinion

Anti-Semitism in Europe Isn't about Israel

(Washington Post) Richard Cohen - The Islamic world is not so concerned about Palestinians that it has accorded Palestinian refugees anything like equal rights in the countries where they have sought refuge, or protested when whole Palestinian communities were uprooted from Kuwait after the PLO supported Saddam Hussein. The Arab world weeps for the Palestinians - but only on cue and not too much. So the supposed anger that drives some Muslims into sharing core beliefs with Adolf Hitler is not all that essential to the Islamic or Arab identity. Anti-Semitism is the most durable of all conspiracy theories and blaming Israel misses the point. The pogroms of Europe took place with no Israel in sight. The Holocaust consumed 6 million Jews and not because Hitler was pro-Palestinian.

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