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The Western world, and especially the Muslim world, has never stopped being anti-Semitic. It was hidden. Sleeping. Ready to awake. Waiting for an opportunity. For my generation, the Holocaust was recent history, much like the Bataclan, Toulouse, Nice, and other atrocities committed by jihadists are current events for younger generations, who now relegate the greatest tragedy of the 20th century to the realm of “ancient history.” If the Holocaust is “ancient history,” it can be filed away with Napoleon's conquests, the Inquisition, the Muslim conquest halted at Poitiers, the conquest of the Americas, and, why not, the Roman Empire. While current events feed on emotions in this age of instant gratification, history calls on memory, knowledge, discussion, and analysis... It's complicated for the tiny brains of Twitter users and Instagrammers. As a result, the moral barrier that the Holocaust represented against anti-Semitism collapsed the moment predators smelled Jewish blood flowing freely on October 7, 2023. The mob tried. They dared. No leader really reacted. On the contrary. It became open season for Jew hunting. As a result, ancient anti-Semitism, renewed with an anti-Zionist twist, was able to sweep freely with a wonderful pretext. Come on, the Jews are committing genocide. It's been denounced by South Africa, Rachida Tlaib and the UN. Didn't you know? Yet, Hitler warned you.