Anger as Rabbi Claims Anti-Semitism Benefited Jews over the Centuries

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Byline: By Aled Blake Western Mail

Anti-semitism is a positive force for Jewish people, a leading Welsh academic claims today.

Lampeter University's Dan Cohn-Sherbok controversially argues that anti-Semitism provides a paradox for the Jewish community - and its demise has left today's Jews in chaos.

Rabbi Professor Cohn-Sherbok says that hatred of Jews has kept Judaism alive for thousands of years.

But he argues that state of affairs is being threatened by the fact that anti-Semitism has gradually disappeared and in the last two centuries - with the exception of Nazi Germany - Jews have integrated into society.

His book The Paradox Of …