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The English-speaking world no longer sees Jews as greedy villains.Old-style anti-Semitism is dying

An interesting analysis in New York’s Jewish Daily Forward, “Anti-Semitism and the recession”, contends that Jewish history has changed course, for the better. Looking back at late 2008, it says:\n\n … if ever the country seemed primed for a revived outbreak of the populist formula equating Wall Street with Jews and both of these with evil, this was a moment when the stars were aligned in malignant confluence.
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April 5, 2010

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An interesting analysis in New York’s Jewish Daily Forward, “Anti-Semitism and the recession”, contends that Jewish history has changed course, for the better. Looking back at late 2008, it says:

  … if ever the country seemed primed for a revived outbreak of the populist formula equating Wall Street with Jews and both of these with evil, this was a moment when the stars were aligned in malignant confluence.

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