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January 29, 2019

What Europeans Don’t Understand about Anti-Semitism

Jews feel safer in Orban’s Hungary than in Macron’s France.

In Europe, and to a lesser extent in America, two propositions about anti-Semitism are taken as articles of faith: first, that remembrance of and education about the Holocaust can guard against the proliferation of anti-Semitism, and second that the main danger to Jews comes from the extreme right and neo-Nazi groups. Fiamma Nirenstein, without downplaying either the importance of Holocaust education or the perils of the extreme right, argues that both propositions are fundamentally flawed:

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January 29, 2019

  1. What Europeans Don’t Understand about Anti-Semitism

    Jews feel safer in Orban’s Hungary than in Macron’s France.

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