Unlike many scholars who have regarded anti-semitism as a form of racial discrimination, Michael (European history, U. of Massachusetts) takes the position that... » 

Unlike many scholars who have regarded anti-semitism as a form of racial discrimination, Michael (European history, U. of Massachusetts) takes the position that religion, or Christianity in particular, is at the root of anti-semitism. He begins this history of anti-semitism in America with the statement the US is above all things, a Christian nati «