Reply #6: I think he's basing it on the fact that European bigotry, in the [View All]

form of texts like the "Protocols" and also Mein Kampf, etc, found their way into the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century. This has caused a double whammy to develop - the blood libel and conspiracy theories and "Shylock" stereotypes on top of the pigs and monkies of dhimmitude. It's caused traditional Islamic views of Jewry to become much more virulent and hateful. There really wasn't this level of extremism in the past, except in isolated cases.

On the other hand the very conditions of dhimmitude caused heaven knows how many Christians and Jews simply to disappear and/or convert, so it was crushing in its own way. But it didn't have the "Christ killer" mythology, and similar blood libels, combined with some of Hitler's ideals, some of which are now common currency in the Middle East along with Holocaust denial, etc.