As inter-imperialist rivalry now intensifies, especially between the U.S. and Russian and China, with each scrambling to secure allies and advantages against…
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“Antisemitism is on the rise”, shout Jewish activists, hoping for someone to pay attention. While Israelis perpetually acknowledge and prepare for the inevitability of the next war, many optimistic Jews abroad plead to those who rule over them for protection as citizens of their respective countries, equal under the law, and, supposedly, in the eyes of their neighbors. They echo the insistent sentiments of Persian Jewry, of Weimar Jewry. Of the Jews of Granada in the 1000s, of England in the 1100s, the Jews of Fez massacred in 1033, and throughout Morocco in the 1860s. Of the Jewish communities that maintained a presence in the cities of Hebron, of Safed, Jerusalem, Gaza, Tiberia