No, Islamophobia is not the new anti-Semitism | Anti-Semitism | Race | spiked

Despite hysteria about Islamophobia, anti-semitic attacks are always the most

A clear and concise explanation of a modern false equivalence, one I've written about before. 

Brendan O'Neill in Spiked.
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It is the definition of historical illiteracy to compare Islamophobia to anti-Semitism. And yet that is what is happening. People who feel put out by the discussion of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, and possibly even envious of the attention that anti-Jewish prejudice is receiving in comparison with anti-Muslim prejudice, have taken to saying: 'What about the cancer of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party? When are we talking about that?' They fail to realise the fundamental difference between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: the former is one of the world's oldest hatreds and has caused the deaths of millions of people; the latter is a word invented by the Runnymede Trust in 1997 to demonise criticism of Islam.

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