...anti-Judaism...[is]...“a powerful theoretical framework for making sense of the world”...
...Anti-Semitism is hostility to Jews...anti-Judaism is a mental construct that can flourish even in the absence of Jews. Judaism in this sense bears no necessary relation to the practices of the Jewish people...[n]or...is ‘anti-Judaism’ simply an attitude towards Jews and their religion, but a way of critically engaging with the world...
...among church fathers, Jewishness became a cipher for what was undesirable and demonic. Some Christian thinking about Jews still sees them as a historical aberration...
... Atavistic forces have continually understood the ills of the world in a language about Jewishness. Tragically, this is part of our history. Ominously (consider the significance, in current political debate, of Israel), it remains part of our culture.
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