The Ideas Of Anti-Semitism Against Israel

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This lesson was fascinating. The most interesting thing was the map of the word, which shows how many people are anti-Semitism in specific countries. Moreover, it indicated on people's reasons to be anti-Semitism by referring to the questions that people answered. It was very surprising to see, what some people think about Jews. Seeing some of the questions made me think, how the perception towards Jews is wrong.
In addition, we learnt about three different kinds of anti-Semitism, which I knew. However, I did not know that today there is so much anti-Semitism against Israel. I liked the ideas of Professor Michael Llorenz. It also gave me some hope that we can do something about this situation. Nevertheless, it still seems somehow impossible

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