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Antisemitism and Islamophobia: a double standard

Antisemitism and Islamophobia: a double standard

Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact

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Melanie Phillips
Dec 10, 2021
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Mohammed's son-in-law ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib slays Jewish chieftain Marhab ibn Abi Zaynab in iconic battle of Khybar, 628

One of the most obvious characteristics of antisemitism is the double standards it perpetrates, through which Jews are singled out for harmful assumptions and treatment directed against no other people in the world.

Yet the practice of…

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