I am reading a rather spectacular book. David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism and WesternTradition.
Nirenberg wisely has written the entire book from the vantage point of the anti-Jews without any relationship to Jews or their history. This is appropriate because anti-Judaism is entirely based on arguments and fights among the people who hate Jews. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Jews or the behavior of Jews.
The first and most stunning thing to me is that by the time King David was building the Temple in Jerusalem the Egyptians of that era were already creating and spreading anti-Jewish stories. The Egyptians had their own version of the Exodus in which they claimed to have driven the Jews out of Egypt.
I have not finished the book but there are already three things that are worth pointing out to my readers.
If you are a Jew and living in Europe, get the hell out of there. Europeans have a 2000 year history of hating Jews and being ferociously antagonistic and cruel to Jews. There is nothing in their worldview that was changed by the Holocaust. Whenever Europeans have an internal debate (such as the way to deal with slow economic growth) or need a scapegoat the Jews will be the target. Nothing has changed this. Nothing.
At present there is no anti-Judaism in India, China or Japan. While this is reassuring and could mean a comforting future relationship for Israel and this half of the world, we should not take this as a fact. Jew hate is the byproduct of internal dissension and internal distress. None of these societies are immune to the kinds of problems that would generate scapegoat based hatred for Jews.
Lastly, Islam is never going to change its attitudes of Jew hate. This Jew hate is deeply embedded in everything about the Koran. While Jews have been allowed to live in Arabia and Persia for more than a millenium, the teachings of the Koran are inherently and pervasively anti-Jew. This is not going to change. It is integral to Islam.
Don't let the followers of Allah get a nuclear weapon.