Op-Ed: Classical anti-Semitism is no longer the primary threat

Fiamma Nirenstein, former Italian MP, in the Jerusalem Post:

“Anti-Semitism in the ancient form is no longer the [primary] issue” facing world Jewry, outgoing chairwoman of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP) Fiamma Nirenstein told The Jerusalem Post this week.

Nirenstein, a former Italian MP and recent immigrant to Israel, was replaced by New York Congressman Eliot Engel as head of the international Jewish body last week.

Nirenstein said rather than being troubled over classical anti-Semitism in the West, in which the Jews as individuals are targeted due to religious or racial biases, the central focus of Jewish efforts should be hate against the Jewish state.

Anti-Zionism “has become the new anti-Semitism,” Nirenstein told the Post.

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