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Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021007/opinion/7edit.htm
A Shameful Contagion
(U.S. News) Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Europe is sick again. The memory of 6 million murdered Jews, it seems, is no longer inoculation against the virus of antisemitism. The historic antisemitism denying individual Jews the right to live as equal members of society has horribly coalesced with a new version of antisemitism that denies the collective expression of the Jewish people, namely Israel, to live as an equal member of the family of nations. Many Europeans are shocked by the re-emergence of hatred of Jews, but the most common reaction has been complacency.