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The American Jewish Committee is distributing this report to alert all to the dangers posed by Muslim anti-Semitism. The full report with footnotes and illustrations is available from the American Jewish Committee, 165 E. 56th Street, New York, NY 10022, or at the AJC website at http://www.ajc.org/ and the United Jewish Communities website at http://www.ujc.org/. The following are key points from the report. Arab intellectuals and Western anti-Zionists who, against all the evidence, nevertheless continue to deny the existence of "Semitic" anti-Semitism often pretend that there is a sharp distinction between Jews and Zionists in the relevant literature. In reality, this was rarely the case even in the past, and where such a differentiation might at one time have existed, it has been almost totally eroded. The mounting scale and sheer extent of this vehemently anti-Semitic literature and commentary in the newspapers, journals, magazines, radio, television, and in the everyday life of the Middle East have swamped that minority of Arabs who did try to separate their attitudes to Jews from their rejection of Zionism. The stream of vitriolic visual and verbal imagery extends from Morocco to the Gulf States and Iran; it is as strong in supposedly "moderate" Egypt as it is in openly hostile Arab nations such as Iraq, Libya, and Syria.