“I am a Jew,” Shylock states, in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. He continues:
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One of the many consequences of the long history of antisemitism is that when a Jew commits a crime - and particularly a financial crime - the entire community feels like it’s being judged.
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As the financial crisis deepens, more examples of antisemitic conspiracy theories to explain it are emerging.
In his classic “Anti-Semite and Jew,” Jean-Paul Sartre argued that antisemitism “is something quite other than an idea. It is first of all a passion.” The emphasis is Sartre’s.
