Antisemitism

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In a phrase, Impostor Syndrome. Christians and Muslims know in their heart of hearts that Jews are the most logical successors to the religion of the ancient Israelites (although the Mormonism of Joseph Smith was even closer in practice and in theory, which is why it wasn’t allowed to persist), but they can’t admit this even to themselves. Which wouldn’t be so big a deal if there were no Jewish people in society with Christians and Muslims - Enlightenment-era Northern Europeans were free to believe that they were the true heirs of Classical European civilization because there were no actual Italians or Greeks around - but they always have been there, and so…