Source: JTA
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13447&intcategoryid=
On November 11, 2003 JTA reported that in his new book "Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism," Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, writes that Jews currently confront a greater threat than the one they faced in the 1930's. "Under leaders that excuse the anti-Semitism in their midst, Europe — home to a fast-growing Muslim population — has given rise to extremist political parties and hate crimes against Jews, Foxman notes in his book... But 'Never Again?' also comes as the FBI prepares to release data Wednesday showing a downward trend in anti-Semitic crime in the United States. The FBI reports 931 anti-Jewish incidents in 2002, down from 1,043 in 2001 and 1,119 in 2000, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. Some Jewish community observers take issue with Foxman’s argument. The idea that Jews are more vulnerable today than in the 1930s is 'absurd,' said Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist of American Jewry and professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 'We have the most powerful military in Jewish history' in the State of Israel, Cohen said, 'and possibly the most influential Diaspora Jewry since Joseph sat next to Pharoah on the throne of Egypt.'"