Is Islam Anti-Semitic?

As Tarek Fatah, the author of the provocative The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism, puts it, “by any rational standard, Muslims and Jews should have been, and could be, partners. Their faiths are very similar ...There were times when Muslims and Jews even prayed together around the stone covered today by the Dome on the Rock [in Jerusalem].” Certainly in the imagination of western Christians at least, Muslims and Jews were for centuries regarded as two of a kind. From the medieval theologians through to Hegel, Islam was considered to be a revival of Judaism (which Christians thought should have died with Christ). Although the attitude to both Jews and Muslims has generally been hostile, it was not always so. For example, Jews and Muslims were both admired by 19th-century Romantics as possessors of an eastern spirituality that inspired and could continue to inspire the Occident. When Jews and Arabs were both classed as members of...