Bradley Burston: Postwar self test: Are you an anti-Semite?
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Title:Albert Einstein about anti-Semitism
Name:Peter Vos
City: RotterdamState: Netherlands
Albert Einstein once made the following statement about anti-Semitism:

"Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world...the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity"
- Albert Einstein, quoted in Collier`s Magazine, November 26, 1938

Recently, a rabbi living in Wales, even wrote a book about this:
Dan Cohn-Sherbok, The Paradox of Anti-Semitism
The British newspaper The Independent had an interview with the rabbi about the book. Read it at:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article352243.ece

It seems that Jews need hatred towards Jews in order to survive as a group. Without anti-Semitism, the Jews would rapidly assimilate with the Gentiles and leave their Jewish identity behind.