The New Antisemitism

What are the opening questions Rabbi Sacks poses in this video?

• What is antisemitism?

• Why did Hitler rise to power?

• Why should antisemitism be cause of concern for everyone?

• Both the blue and yellow answers

What contradictions have been apparent in antisemitism before the Holocaust?

• Jews are hated because of their language and yet we don't all have a common language

• Jews are hated because they are capitalists and because they are communists

• Jews are hated because we keep to ourselves and because we tend to mainstream

• None of the above

What is Xenophobia?

• Not liking people because they're different

• Hatred of vegetables

• Hatred of closed places

• All of the above

What is antisemitism?

• Hatred of our religion and way of life

• Persecuting Jews and denying them the right to exist collectively

• Hatred of Jewish customs

In the Middle Ages, we were persecuted because of

• Israel

• Our dress

• Our religion

19th and 20th centuries:

• Hated because of our race

• Hated because of Israel

• Hated because of our customs

What is the legitimation of antisemitism in our day and age?

• Human rights

• Science

• Religion

What human rights does the current antisemitism say we Jews are violating?

• Denial of medical care

• Denial of voting rights

• Denial of national self-determination

Scapegoating happens when...

• a group looks outward to understand why bad things are happening to them

• a group looks inward to understand why bad things are happening to them

What made us more prone to scapegoating back in the times of Hitler and today?

• We've always been disliked, no particular reason

• Because we fail to live up to our potential

• because we were the most conspicuous minority