"Around the world, anti-Semitism is now mainstream."

I am afraid Caroline Glick is right. When I was growing up, Holocaust deniers were mostly ex-Nazis in South America. During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, I never heard an anti-Israeli comment in my elementary school. We respected Jews in our community. Though some people resented their success and their tribal ways, I rarely heard someone claim that the world's problems were caused by a conspiracy of Jews except in sourpuss kill-joy right-wing circles.

Today, however, Glick can report:

'[W]hereas they may reject the daily calls to destroy the Jews, Westerners have increasingly internalized the basic claim that Jews deserve to be hated. Take for instance a Washington Post story last week on Egypt's decision to bar Jewish worshippers from making their annual visit to the grave of Torah sage Rabbi Yaakov Abu Hatzera. The story claimed that the Egyptians oppose Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians and because the Egyptian cross-border terror attack on Israel last August, "led to the killing of at least five Egyptian border guards as Israeli troops pursued alleged militants." 'That is, according to the Washington Post, just as the pan-Arab media claims, Israel is entirely responsible for Arab hatred of Jews.'

To dehumanize the children of Abraham is to dehumanize humanity.