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November 12, 2025

Anti-Semitism’s Role in the Israel-Arab Conflict—in Europe and in the Middle East

Killers of prophets and messiahs.

It’s difficult not to conclude that anti-Semitism is part of the reason for the BBC’s distorted coverage of the Gaza war. Indeed, although anti-Semitism doesn’t by itself explain the Arab-Israeli conflict, the political and diplomatic dimensions cannot be understood fully without taking anti-Semitism into consideration. The historian Benny Morris takes a close look, beginning with the images of Jewish crimes against Christ found in medieval art: 

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