ABSTRACT
Unfortunately, anti-Semitism is still among us, in our jokes, stereotypes, political language, ideas and behaviours. Smith has alleged that G.I. Langmuir’s chimeria have overgeneralized the concept of anti-Semitism. She has polemically suggested that ‘chimeria’ is so general that scholars might even apply it to witchcraft accusations. Langmuir’s distinction between stereotypes and chimerias remains a valid and good guide in our attempt to understand whether today Muslims are becoming anti-Semitic or, as some commentators in Israel have suggested, the international jihad is nothing other than a jihad against Jews and Israel. In the early 1980s, after the shocking Iranian revolution, Daniel Pipes together with Bernard Lewis called for a greater awareness within and outside academia of the danger that Muslim anti-Semitism may present for Jewish people. R. Wistrich, in his approach to Muslim anti-Semitism, has quoted and adopted the works of Pipes and Bat Ye‘or. Indeed, behind the anti-Semitic attitudes of some Muslims Westernophobia may epiphany.
