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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.