There has so far been no openly anti-Jewish mass movement among Muslims. Kurds, Turks, and Bosnians tend to be more secular and friendlier toward Jews than Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East. Certain Muslim groups want to learn from the established Jewish community how to gain legal, political, and social acceptance in Switzerland. Muslims have not been the driving force behind the Swiss version of the new Europe-wide anti-Semitism. However, there is a growing radicalization of disaffected Muslim youth, with Islamism gaining ground among certain groups.
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The successor states of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia provide a good case study of many aspects of the process of memory destruction. All successor states are rewriting their histories. The memory of the Holocaust is thus also fragmented according to the national context. It is important that the physical Jewish infrastructure is not further degraded and that memorial sites in Jewish locations are well kept. For many, the existence of a Jewish memorial does not allow them to forget the crimes of the past.
On 30 September 2000, Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem-based head of the Middle East Bureau of the French television station France 2, presented sixty seconds of footage of what he described as the killing of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura targeted by Israeli soldiers. The Muhammad al-Dura affair took a dramatic turn in May 2008 when a French appeals court found that Philippe Karsenty was innocent of having defamed Enderlin when he had claimed that the images shown by France 2 of the killing of al-Dura were staged.
Behind the Nordic countries' appearance and oft-proclaimed concern for human rights lurk darker attitudes. This book deals mainly with lifting the humanitarian mask as far as Israel and Jews are concerned. Thirteen essays and interviews discuss various aspects of the attitudes of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland toward Israel and the Jews.
The new century has seen many attempts to discriminate against Israel, its academic institutions, and its scholars in several Western countries. This includes boycotting Israeli universities and academics as well as calling for divestment from Israeli securities. The campaigns frequently use anti-Semitic motifs and sometimes also involve violent anti-Semitic acts. Eighteen essays from four continents discuss a variety of cases of discrimination and how Israel and Jews can defend themselves against such initiatives. Foreword by Natan Sharansky 
The author argues convincingly that proposed concessions of Israeli control over Jerusalem will pave the way for Islamic radicals and terrorists to make further demands and will strengthen the forces behind the global jihad, including Al-Qaeda.
German scholar Matthias Küntzel argues that the origins of the Islamist terror of recent years, which culminated in the attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, and of the radical anti-Semitic ideologies of Hamas, Hizballah, Iran, the Palestine Covenant, and Al-Qaeda, lie in the lethal link between Islamism and Nazism.
The main recurrent motif in Arab cartoons concerning Israel is "the devilish Jew." This image conveys the idea that Jews behave like Nazis, kill children and love blood. The similarity with themes promulgated by the Nazis is evident. Many Arab cartoons praise suicide bombing or call for murder. The collective image of the Jews thus projected lays the groundwork for a possible genocide.
The anti-Zionist narrative probably has greater legitimacy in Great Britain than in any other Western society. Antisemitism of the "anti-Zionist" variety has achieved such resonance, particularly in elite opinion, that various British media are leaders in this field. The UK holds a pioneering position in promoting academic boycotts of Israel. The same is true for trade-union efforts at economic boycotts. There is also no other Western society where jihadi radicalism has proved as violent and dangerous as in the UK.
Christian friends of the Jewish people have supported the Zionist movement since its inception. Today as well they play an important role worldwide in building support for Israel. On the other hand, a variety of leaders among certain Protestant denominations are rapidly emerging among the main adversaries of Israel. What theological and other reasons are behind their motivations?
Over the last two to three decades, Arabs have invested large sums of money in order to influence how the Middle East is taught on American college campuses. This has begun to change slowly over the last five years as philanthropists have begun to invest in the burgeoning field of Israel studies and to establish centers and chairs. Visiting Israeli professors are now transforming campuses by presenting perspectives rarely heard at many universities and their impact is such that several schools are now creating permanent positions.
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