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There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.