Editing Antisemitism in Islam (section)

===19th century===
According to [[Mark R. Cohen|Mark Cohen]], Arab antisemitism in the modern world arose relatively recently, in the 19th century, against the backdrop of conflicting Jewish and Arab nationalisms, and it was primarily imported into the Arab world by nationalistically minded Christian Arabs (and only subsequently was it "Islamised").<ref>[[Mark R. Cohen|Mark Cohen]] (2002), p. 208</ref>
[[File:Execution of a Moroccan Jewess by Alfred Dehodencq.jpg|thumb|"Execution of a Moroccan Jewess ([[Sol Hachuel]])", painting by [[Alfred Dehodencq]]]]
The [[Damascus affair]] occurred in 1840, when an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in [[Damascus]]. Immediately following it, a charge of [[ritual murder]] was brought against a large number of Jews in the city. All of them were found guilty. The consuls of [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]], [[July Monarchy|France]] and [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] protested against the persecution to the Ottoman authorities, and Christians, Muslims and Jews all played a great role in this affair.<ref>Frankel, Jonathan: ''The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997) {{ISBN|0-521-48396-4}} p. 1</ref>

A massacre of Jews also occurred in [[Baghdad]] in 1828.<ref name=Morris10>[[Benny Morris|Morris, Benny]]. ''Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001''. Vintage Books, 2001, pp. 10–11.</ref> There was another massacre in [[Babol|Barfurush]] in 1867.<ref name=Morris10/>

In 1839, in the eastern [[Persia]]n city of [[Meshed]], a mob burst into the [[Jewish quarter (diaspora)|Jewish Quarter]], burned the synagogue, and destroyed the [[Sefer Torah|Torah scrolls]]. This is known as the [[Allahdad incident]]. It was only by forcible conversion that a massacre was averted.<ref name="Patai">{{cite book | last = Patai | first = Raphael | title = Jadid al-Islam: The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed | publisher = Wayne State University Press | year= 1997 | location = Detroit | isbn = 978-0-8143-2652-7 }}</ref>

[[Benny Morris]] writes that one symbol of Jewish degradation was the phenomenon of stone-throwing at Jews by Muslim children. Morris quotes a 19th-century traveler: "I have seen a little fellow of six years old, with a troop of fat toddlers of only three and four, teaching [them] to throw stones at a Jew, and one little urchin would, with the greatest coolness, waddle up to the man and literally spit upon his Jewish [[gaberdine]]. To all this the Jew is obliged to submit; it would be more than his life was worth to offer to strike a Mahommedan."<ref name=Morris10/>