More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.
I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.