Fern Sidman News Today

Armenia is the most saturated with antisemitism among the post-Soviet countries, with anti-Jewish sentiments shared by 58% of its population, according to the ADL.

The Jewish State ( Der Judenstaat), that the Jews would continue to be persecuted and treated as second class citizens unless they reestablished their own nation. Although belonging to the secular, assimilated Jewish upper-class of Viennese society, Herzl had ample experience with anti-Semitism: both personally, as a law student in Vienna (a profession that placed barriers to Jews), and as a journalist employed by the prestigious Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse, for which he got to cover ...