Editing Antisemitism in Islam (section)

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According to [[Norman Stillman]], Antisemitism in the Muslim world increased greatly for more than two decades following 1948 but "peaked by the 1970s, and declined somewhat as the slow process of rapprochement between the Arab world and the state of Israel evolved in the 1980s and 1990s".<ref name="Yahud" /> Johannes J. G. Jansen believes that antisemitism will have no future in the Arab world in the long run. In his view, like other imports from the [[Western World]], antisemitism is unable to establish itself in the private lives of Muslims.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Jansen, Johannes, J. G. |title=Lewis' Semites and Anti-Semites|journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review|jstor=1454485 |volume=77|issue= 2/3 |year=1986 |pages=231–233|doi=10.2307/1454485}}</ref> In 2004 [[Khaleel Mohammed]] said, "Anti-Semitism has become an entrenched tenet of Muslim theology, taught to 95 per cent of the religion's adherents in the Islamic world," a claim immediately dismissed as false and racist by Muslim leaders, who accused Mohammed of destroying efforts at relationship building between Jews and Muslims.<ref>Bruemmer, Rene. "Muslim speaker denounced: He doesn't speak for Islam: leaders. U.S. scholar tells Montreal conference theologians teach anti-Semitism". ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]'', 16 March 2004, p. A8.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_1-2_53/ai_n8967463 |title=Produce your proof: Muslim exegesis, the Hadith, and the Jews |first=Khaleel |last=Mohammed |journal=Judaism |publisher=[[American Jewish Congress]] |date=Winter–Spring 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622154857/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_1-2_53/ai_n8967463 |archive-date=22 June 2008 }}</ref> In 2010, Moshe Ma'oz, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University, edited a book questioning the common perception Islam is antisemitic or anti-Israel, and maintaining that most Arab regimes and most leading Muslim clerics have a pragmatic attitude to Israel.<ref>Moshe Ma'oz, ''Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel: The Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation'', Sussex University Press, 2010. According to Akiva Eldar [http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/the-more-germans-know-about-the-mideast-the-more-they-root-for-the-palestinians.premium-1.443938 'The more Germans know about the Mideast, the more they root for the Palestinians'] at [[Haaretz]], 26 June 2012, Ma'oz holds that 'most researchers of Islam agree that along with periods of oppression and persecution, the Jewish communities in the Islamic countries enjoyed long eras of coexistence and tolerance. Ma'oz stresses that most of the regimes in the Arab and Muslim world, and most leading Muslim clerics, have adapted pragmatic attitudes toward Israel and the Jews. He pointed out the close connection between the occupation in the territories, the dispute regarding the Jerusalem sites that are sacred to Islam and the strengthening of the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tendencies in the Muslim world.'</ref>

According to professor [[Robert Wistrich]], director of the [[Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism]] (SICSA), the calls for the destruction of Israel by [[Iran]] or by [[Hamas]], [[Hezbollah]], [[Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine|Islamic Jihad]], or the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], represent a contemporary mode of genocidal antisemitism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-remembrance-day-a-somber-anniversary/|title=Holocaust Remembrance Day — a somber anniversary}}</ref>

According to the [[Pew Global Attitudes Project]] released on 14 August 2005, high percentages of the populations of six Muslim-majority countries have negative views of Jews. To a questionnaire asking respondents to give their views of members of various religions along a spectrum from "very favorable" to "very unfavorable", 60% of [[Turkey|Turks]], 74% of Pakistanis, 76% of [[Indonesia]]ns, 88% of [[Morocco|Moroccans]], 99% of [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] Muslims and 100% of [[Jordan]]ians checked either "somewhat unfavorable" or "very unfavorable" for Jews.<ref>[http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=248 PEW Global Attitudes Report] statistics on how the world views different religious groups</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Meg |last=Bortin |title=Poll Finds Discord Between the Muslim and Western Worlds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/world/23pew.html?ei=5090&en=5b361ce4828f5847&ex=1308715200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1180479483-EJoZc0Poq7pWF1C9iBvPng |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 June 2006 |access-date=2007-05-29 }}</ref>