Washington – According to American University professor Hillary
Mann Leverett, antisemitism doesn’t exist in the Middle East.
The Senior Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at the School of International
Service recently appeared on MSNBC and claimed that since she has personally
seen a Jewish hospital and kosher restaurants in Iran, the idea that antisemitism
exists in the Middle East is false.
“There is not this
deep-seated Arab-Jewish or-you know, Muslim-Jewish animosity. There’s not an antisemitism
in the Middle East the way that there was in Europe, which is based on race;
which is based on color; which is based on genes and biology,” Leverett
said in her segment on Melissa Harris-Perry. “That doesn’t exist in the
Middle East. There’s no history of that in the Middle East.”
