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Antisemitism: History and
Myth
Why the Ancient Evil of
Antisemitism Has Returned and How to Counter It
By Robert Spencer
"Had we listened to Robert Spencer and taken heed twenty years ago or even ten years ago, the impact of the Islamists driven antisemitism would not have caught us by surprise. We would have had in place an institutional effort to counter it. Here is another opportunity to pay attention to his important work. Read this book!" –Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Hamas attack upon Israel on October 7, 2023, was one of the most inhuman jihad attacks ever and reminiscent of the darkest days of National Socialist Germany. The attackers gloried in their savagery and vied to outdo one another in cruelty. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - its brutality, that attack unleashed expressions of hatred for Jews that shocked those who assumed such hate was a thing of the past. Bestselling author Robert Spencer has written perhaps the most important book on the return of an ancient evil - antisemitism - and how it came to be: Antisemitism: History and Myth.
After October 7, global public opinion turned sharply against Israel. One campus protester carried a sign calling for a "Final Solution." Another published a video saying, "Be glad - be grateful - that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists." Synagogues all over the U.S. received bomb threats. Jews in Europe and the U.S. were attacked. October 7 also led to a large-scale reappearance of claims about the Jews' secret power and malevolence. Claims that Jews are enemies of all that is good have become mainstream as they have not been since Hitler put a bullet in his brain.
In Robert Spencer's book, Antisemitism: History & Myth, you'll learn that:
· Antisemitism historically comes from four
sources: Christianity, Islam, National Socialism (Nazism) and International
Socialism (Communism). All four are increasing today.
· The root cause of antisemitism is the refusal of
Jews to assimilate and melt into the larger community. Many of those larger
communities then demonize them as the outsider that is to blame for all evils.
· Today's antisemites claim simply to be foes of
Israel, but it's clear that there is nothing Israel could ever do that they
would support.
· Antisemitism today, in its claim that the Jews
are running things secretly and with malevolent intent, is a massive deflection
and distraction from the genuine threat of Islamic jihad and other real
threats.
· Antisemitism leads to genocide. This doesn't mean that Jews and Israel should be above criticism, but that the wild claims must be confronted and fought, as they lead to genuine destruction.
The record needs to be set straight for anyone who is willing to see the truth. Historian Robert Spencer does just that in Antisemitism: History & Myth. He reveals the sources of today's Jew-hatred in pre-Christian paganism, Christianity, Islam, and national and international socialism, and rebuts the most common claims against Jews.
Hatred of Jews is a persistent and recurring social contagion that is now cresting again, after people of goodwill around the world thought that it had been definitely laid to rest in the ashes of National Socialist Germany in 1945. The resurgence of antisemitism should worry everyone, Jewish and non-Jewish, who is concerned about the recurrence of one of the darkest chapters in human history. The world today is on the brink of returning to such barbarism. Antisemitism: History & Myth is an attempt to keep that from happening.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author of twenty-nine books, including the bestsellers The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process and The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS. A historian, researcher, and counterterror analyst, Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the U.S. Central Command, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department's Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council and the U.S. intelligence community.
