Is antisemitism a myth?

Antisemitism is not a myth.

It is real, Jews have been slaughtered in Europe way before the Holocaust. For long they were considered by the Church the 'killers of Christ'. And their living in ghettos and not mingling did not help.
Muslims and Arab were also demonized for centuries by the Church, thus the crusades.

Before the creation of the state of Israel, they thrived and were an integral part of life in the Arab world, the Middle East, and Islamic world as they ethnically they are Semites like all other Arabs and Islam recognized the Jewish religion as a mainstream religion.

Then came the Balfour Declaration which was in itself an antisemitic. It destroyed the fabric of Semite societies and pitched Jews against Arabs, both Semites. One could say that it was in line with the colonial policies of 'divide and rule'.

Definition: Divide and rule (or divide and conquer, from Latin dīvide et īmpera) in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.

So antisemitism is not a myth, it is a sad reality but the word modern use is in itself is antisemitic. It is racism and chauvinism against Jews and Arabs and Muslims.



An article from the INDEPENDENT
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-anti-seminitism-israel-palestine-balfour-declaration-a8021191.html

A Facebook Post  https://www.facebook.com/Middle-East-Examiner-533390296813334/

I wonder if celebrating the Balfour declaration would be described as antisemitic given that Palestinians are Semites too!
Definition of Semite
1 a :a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs
b :a descendant of these peoples
2 :a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language