As at Oct 2012, Israel is the only country in the world condemned on the front page of Trocaire – picture above is of Trocaire website on Oct. 10, 2012.

Trocaire applies double standards when condemning Israel. It requires behaviour of Israel that it does not expect or demand from any other country in the Middle East or even from other democratic nations. At the same time it ignores serious human rights crimes in other countries – concentrating its attention only on Israel - and ignores threats to Israel’s survival.

Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World has always been problematic. After all, a 2008 Pew Research Center study shows that almost 100 percent of people in the Arab countries surrounding Israel hold anti-Semitic views.

But what is even more problematic is how this anti-Semitism among Muslims has spread to the Western World, especially to children and teenagers.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, Britain’s Jewish community representative organization, has accused Rev. Stephen Sizer, the vicar of Virginia Water Church in Surrey, and an ardent anti-Israel campaigner, of making anti-Semitic statements and republishing anti-Semitic material.

The Jewish organization has taken the unprecedented step of lodging a formal complaint to the Church of England, the country’s officially established Christian church, accusing Rev. Stephen Sizer of anti-Semitism. According to the board’s vice-president, Jonathan Arkush, Sizer has made statements that the board and most of the Jewish community find utterly offensive, to the point of crossing the line into anti-Semitism.

An extraordinary letter signed by 15 leaders of Christian churches was sent on Oct. 5, 2012 to every member of the US Congress asking for reconsideration of aid to Israel because of accusations of human rights violations. Why did they consider Israel to be their main concern during a turbulent time in the Middle East? What was the internal logic of their letter? Can the letter be seen as evidence of their hatred for the Jewish State?

Richard Williamson was expelled by the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) on October 4, 2012. Williamson was a British Bishop of the movement, who as a known Holocaust denier has publicly rejected the existence of gas chambers, and charged Jews with seeking world domination and Devil worship. Nevertheless, he was not discharged because of his anti-Semitism but because of insubordination.

Sheikh Salman Al-'Odeh represents the supposedly more liberal Islamic position in Saudi Arabia, i.e. that Islam does not seek war but considers it an inevitability to be avoided as much as possible. He claims that offensive jihad was appropriate to the circumstances during the early Islamic era, when might made right, but that it is not relevant today, when international laws regulate relations between countries.

A number of organizations claiming a Jewish membership receive substantial coverage in the media for their attacks on the idea of a Jewish National Home. While these groups are quite small, they receive a disproportionate amount of attention. Apparently small size is irrelevant when Jews can be shown to be opposed to Israel.

Anti-Semitic attacks on Israel by Israelis and Jews are frequently indistinguishable from those by gentiles. Among the specific aspects in the anti-Israel writings of some Jews are the use of their family's Holocaust experiences, their references to being Jewish, or an association of some kind with Israel.

So far there have been many rewards and few penalties for most Jews who attack Israel. They have positioned themselves in society in such a way that they are applauded by part of the non-Jewish environment. They are wined and dined by Arab States, Iran, and the international network of anti-Israel organizations. They apparently don’t lack in resources, and quite often receive substantial salaries for their anti-Israel efforts, which come from NGOs and wealthy anti-Israeli contributors.

Lynn Gottlieb, Rabbi of the Jewish Renewal movement, and active in the Jewish Voice for Peace, made a strong effort to convince the Presbyterian Church to divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions because of their activities in Israel. The General Assembly of the Church, however, turned down the chance to boycott the companies by a vote of 333-331 on July 5, 2012.

In June of 2012, news headlines declared that: “Ex-Israeli Soldiers Holidaying in Goa are Dehumanised.” The story was based on an open letter from June 11, 2012 that was sent by Fr. Maverick Fernandes declaring “solidarity from Goa to our sisters and brothers who suffer under Israeli occupation and still struggle in dignity for their liberation.”

The letter described: “Three years ago, for the first time, we sprung into action when we decided to study the issue of Israelis who had completed their term in the IDF and who turned up on the shores of Goa to overlook and disregard their actions while on military duty. Our study revealed how dehumanized these young people had become and how, because of an oppressive and cruel system of illegal military occupation, even the victimizers had turned casualties and victims of their own cruelties.”

Bilda, a Christian Swedish educational association, removed one criticized drawing, which portrayed Israelis as rats and the West Bank as cheese, from an art exhibition at the Immanuel International Church (Immanuelskyrkan) scheduled for March 16 to April 10 2012. But other drawings by Stefan Sjöblom and Larz Lindqvist in the exhibition titled "The holy land - det håliga landet" (land of holes) are also strongly anti-Semitic. Both artists are pastors in the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, and Sjoblom also works as a prison pastor.

Anna Ekström, a freelance journalist based in Sweden, described her visit to the art exhibition in an article published in the newspaper Haaretz. She said: “Anti-Israel propaganda is common, but this is something else. The artist accuses Judaism of being inherently destructive.” The artists imagery is a fusion of anti-Jewish myths from Christianity, Nazism, the Left and Islamism.

In March of 2012, the Bible College in Bethlehem will host dozens of US theologians, activists and ministries for the “Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 Conference.” Bethlehem Bible College trains Christian servant-leaders for the churches and society within an Arab context. Founded in 1979 by local Arabs, the college usually enrolls 135 students who are interested in Christian service in the Middle East.

Preacher Keith Hudson, father of pop star Kate Perry, ranted against Jews in the Church on the Rise in Westlake, Ohio. He pleased hundreds of followers who promptly passed around the plate for contributions to him and his wife.

“You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey,” he preached.

"You go to LA and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of LA where we live and it is so rich it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews, hallelujah. Amen."

Giulio Meotti, Italian journalist with Il Foglio, remarked on UK clerics during the 2011 Christmas season as preaching "good will to all men," but not, apparently, to Israelis.

Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, made a comparison between Palestinians and Jesus’ passion. “We are to be freshly attentive to the needs of those who, like Jesus himself, are displaced and in discomfort”, he said during his Christmas Mass sermon at Westminster Cathedral. “A shadow falls particularly heavily on the town of Bethlehem tonight … We pray for them tonight.”

Nichols’ sermon has historical value, because now the entire Christian hierarchy in the UK, Catholic and Protestant as well, is part of the global battle against Israel.

George Saliba, Archbishop of Mount Lebanon and Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church, explained the unrest in the Arab world as due to Zionists in an interview on Al-Dunya TV on July 24, 2011.

Mart Green is not a familiar name among those who propogate a religious hatred of Jews and Israel. He is not a preacher. He is the son of David Green who is one of Forbes’ 400 Richest Americans, with an estimated net worth of $2.6 billion.

More than 75 peaceful protesters were on the sidewalk carrying Israeli flags in front of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Canadian headquarters in Clarkson on Oct. 23, 2011, demonstrating their opposition to a Calling the World Back to Allah conference featuring speakers who have been previously linked to allegations of anti-Semitic and anti-gay remarks. They also carried signs that read "Stop Islamic Racism."

The Jewish National League was joined by several other faith groups, including the International Christian Voice, headed locally by slain Pakistani Minorities Minister's brother Peter Bhatti, the Canadian Hindu Advocacy, headed by Ron Banerjee, the Canadian Egyptian Congress, the Costa Christian Mission, and the Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple.

On Oct. 26, 2011, an immigration tribunal in Britain concluded that Raed Salah had engaged in “the unacceptable behavior of fostering hatred” that might lead to intercommunity violence in the UK.

The tribunal considered five pieces of evidence against Salah: a poem he wrote, a speech in which he invoked a blood libel slur against Jews, claims that Israel intends to destroy the Aksa Mosque, charges he currently faces in Israel for incitement to violence and anti-Semitism, and his conviction for funding organizations linked to Hamas.

A bewildering letter of clarification by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus seeks to clarify that he does not hate Jews (recognizing that Jesus was born a Jew), but claims that the Jews have since been lead into Satanism by the teachings of the Talmud, the Rabbis and the Kabbalah, and that Zionism is a conspiracy to take over the world. Metropolitan Seraphim further seems to believe that because he has already publicly declared his belief in these crackpot theories in the past, he should be exempt from the angry reaction shown at his most recent pronouncements.

Mohammad Amin al-Hussaini was the most important influential Arab leader during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine. An associate and collaborator of the Nazis, al-Husseini was an extreme anti-Semite who did much to instigate the Arabs against the Jews.

Imam Abdul Alim Musa is a radical Muslim American activist and public speaker. Known for his openly anti-Semitic remarks, Alim Musa is a well known figure in the Muslim world.