Antisemitism did not start, or die, in the 20th century

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Floral tributes are left Friday near the Manchester synagogue, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur, in what police have declared a terrorist incident.

This week’s deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, constitutes the inescapable confirmation that, eight decades after the Holocaust, antisemitism is once again a virulent international contagion.

Violent attacks on Jewish people in the United States, Canada and Great Britain have come in the three countries that were the leading military and cultural opponents to the institutionalized antisemitism of Nazi Germany, which began in 1933 and reached a crescendo of cruelty with the establishment of an archipelago of concentration camps across wartime Europe.

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