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See main article anti-Semitism for etymology, roots and disputes on what is sometimes called "the world's longest hatred".

The new anti-Semitism

In a report to the first United Nations conference devoted to anti-Semitism on June 21, 2004, the Secretary General Kofi Annan noted "alarming resurgence" of anti-Semitism in the world: "It is clear that we are witnessing an alarming resurgence of this phenomenon in new forms and manifestations," Annan said. "This time the world must not, cannot be silent." ,

In his article Human Rights and the New Anti-Jewishness, Irwin Cotler, the new Minister of Justice for Canada, defines thirteen indices of discrimination against Jews that characterizes the "new anti-Jewishness". Cotler states:

In a word, classical or traditional anti-Semitism is the discrimination against, or denial of, the right of Jews to live as equal members of a free society; the new anti-Semitism—incompletely, or incorrectly, as "anti-Zionism"…—involves the discrimination against, denial of, or assault upon the right of the Jewish people to live as an equal member of the family of nations. What is intrinsic to each form of anti-Semitism—and common to both—is discrimination. All that has happened is that it has moved from discrimination against Jews as individuals—a classical anti-Semitism for which there are indices of measurement (e.g., discrimination against Jews in education, housing, or employment)—to discrimination against Jews as people—a new anti-Semitism — for which one has yet to develop indices of measurement.

Straw-man anti-Semitism

Some hold that one of the new forms of anti-Semitism is the claim that Jews view all criticisms of Israel or of Zionism as anti-Semitic. Jews are then branded as being overly sensitive, or as dishonest. In this view, Jewish groups are falsely crying wolf, which attracts a hatred against them. This argument undercuts any statement by any Jew, as one can then claim that it is the Jews who cause anti-Semitism. According to many Jewish groups, this argument is anti-Semitic, as it depends on false claims and is used to conclude that Jews bring anti-Semitism upon themselves.

On numerous occasions Jewish groups have publicly criticised the policies of different Israeli governments. In his speech) given at Berkeley University on April 29, 2004, Law Professor at Harvard University Law School Alan Dershowitz said, in particular: "Show me a single instance where a major Jewish leader or Israeli leader has ever said that criticizing a particular policy of Israeli government is anti-Semitic. That's just something made up by Israel's enemies."

Genocidal anti-Semitism

Genocidal anti-Semitism is the public call for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. Examples include the covenants of some terrorist organizations which publicly call for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews anywhere.

Political anti-Semitism

The denial of the Jewish people to have a form of self-determination, or nationalism, while simultaneously allowing other peoples, such as Arabs and Kurds, to have their own forms of nationalism.

Cotler refers to another form of anti-Semitism as the demonizing of Israel. He writes:

This is the contemporary analogue to the medieval indictment of the Jew as the "poisoner of the wells." In other words, in a world in which human rights has emerged as the new secular religion of our time, the portrayal of Israel as the metaphor for a human rights violator is an indictment of Israel as the "new anti-Christ"—as the "poisoner of the international wells"

Ideological anti-Semitism

The belief that all forms of Zionism are racist, and that Israel is an apartheid state that must be removed, is labelled "ideological anti-Semitism" by some.

Theological anti-Semitism

This refers to the teaching that Judaism is inherently deceitful, evil, and is the enemy of Islam among certain bodies in the Middle-East.

Cultural anti-Semitism

Cultural anti-Semitism refers to what is seen by some as a growing acceptance of public anti-Semitism in universities, in parliaments, among the literate, public intellectuals, and the human rights movement.

Cotler states:

We are witnessing an explosion of European anti-Semitism without parallel or precedent since World War II. Some examples, to which I can personally attest to, following my visits to European capitals these past two years, include assaults upon and desecration of synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish institutions; attacks upon identifiable Jews; convergence of the extreme left and the extreme right in public demonstrations calling for "death to the Jews"; atrocity propaganda against Israel and Jews (e.g., Israel injects the AIDS virus into Palestinians); the ugly canard of double loyalty; the demonization of Israel through the escalating ascription of Nazi metaphors; indifference or silence in the face of horrific acts of terror against Israel and the threatening of sanctions against Israel for exercising its right of self-defense against these acts of terror.

However, there is no substantial data from objective sources to prove such a claim, which is mostly held by interest groups.

Denying Israel equality before the law

Treating Israel in a way different from all other nations is considered to be one of the facets of the new anti-Semitism by many Jewish groups, but there is not yet any substantial proof that this occurs in reality except for the claims brought forward by special-interest groups.

Economic anti-Semitism

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Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is another facet of the new anti-Semitism.

Racist terrorism

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State-sanctioned anti-Semitism

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