Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

— Daniel Barenboim

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

— Pope Pius XI

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later,…

— Michael Douglas

Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews…

— Edgar Steele

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make…

— Anonymous

From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

— Theodor Adorno

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is…

— Steven Berkoff

When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of…

— Judith Butler

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish…

— Jodi Kantor

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is…

— Lionel Blue

The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

— Federica Mogherini

“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This…

— Christopher Hitchens

I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize…

— Theodor Herzl