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Title: “Muslim Antisemitism in France and Western Europe” Date: March 31, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Gunther Jikeli Affiliation: MMZ, GSRL, Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP, Paris Location: ISGAP Center Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Description: Dr. Gunther Jikeli asserts that with recent attacks against Jewish targets, predominantly in Europe, antisemtism continues to be a growing threat and concern among European Jewry. Within recent years there has been a stark rise in antisemitic acts, as well as violent acts, with the majority of the perpetrators of violent and terrorist acts in France being Muslim. He also notes the negative perception of Jews among the majority of the Muslim population and maintains that if we want to combat this phenomenon, we have to know what the tropes are. He says that there are four categories of anti-Jewish “justification”: 1) “Classic antisemtism (conspiracy theories) 2) Related to