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“Throughout history, when people have sought to justify anti-Semitism, they have done so by recourse to the highest source of authority available within the culture. In the Middle Ages, it was religion. In post-Enlightenment Europe it was science. Today it is human rights. It is why Israel — the only fully functioning democracy in the Middle East with a free press and independent judiciary —is regularly accused of the five crimes against human rights: racism, apartheid, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and attempted genocide. This is the blood libel of our time.”

— Jonathan Sacks (March 8, 1948 – Nov. 7, 2020), former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth

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“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe.
It was my philosophy teacher from the Antilles who reminded me one day: ‘When you hear someone insulting the Jews pay attention; he is talking about you.’ And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and my soul for the fate reserved for my brother. Since then, I have understood that what he meant quite simply was the anti-Semite is inevitably a negrophobe.”

— Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – Dec. 6, 1961), Black psychiatrist and political philosopher

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“Consider the Holocaust: The anti-Semitism that built the Nazi death camps was a direct inheritance from medieval Christianity. For centuries, Christian Europeans had viewed the Jews as the worst species of heretics and attributed every societal ill to their continued presence among the faithful. While the hatred of Jews in Germany expressed itself in a predominately secular way, its roots were religious, and the explicitly religious demonization of the Jews of Europe continued throughout the period. The Vatican itself perpetuated the blood libel in its newspapers as late as 1914. And both Catholic and Protestant churches have a shameful record of complicity with the Nazi genocide.”

— Sam Harris, philosopher, neuroscientist, author, public intellectual