Natan Sharansky warned Italy’s senate about the rise of a new form of anti-Semitism in Europe. Sharansky, Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, told JTA by telephone that the Italian response to his speech, in which he said that “classical” Jew hatred was bring transferred to hatred of the Jewish state, was a “pleasant surprise.”
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