Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres equated Europe’s repeated criticisms of Israel with anti- Semitism. “Where in Europe, at the beginning, anti-Semitism was against the individual Jewish person, today I am afraid there is anti-Semitism against the Jewish state,” Peres said Sunday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington.
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