McGrath - Respectfully, I could not disagree with you more. Anti-Semitism has its roots in earliest Christianity (although it wasn't called such), anti-Muslim , or Arab feelings perhaps to the Crusades, wherin each side seems to have called the other 'Infidel.'

Where in European literature does one find a scurilous calumny such as the "Wandering Jew" applied to Arabs? As a matter of fact, I think that Muslims have been much more thought of as exotic, adventuresome and romantic...'The Arabian Nights', 'The Rubaiyat', and Hollywood movies from 'The Sheik' to the Universal epics of the 1940s & '50s.

Only in the last 20 years has Hollywood used Arabs as a whipping boy, having gone through Nazis, Soviets, & Chinese villains as the bad guy du jour. But even then it is made clear that these are fanatical people.

I cannot remember in my 60+ years as a Jewish person ever being lumped into the same pot as an Arab. I don't think you have heard of that happening either, not then and not now.

La Shana Tova (Happy New Year) to all.