Hard Coded

Islamic antisemitism will take some beating...especially if we look away from its roots. 

Each new generation of committed Muslims is exposed to a series of supposedly sacred texts which contain multiple antisemitic references. 

There is no direct equivalent in the other two 'desert faiths' in part because they came earlier and there were no Muslims around to hate on while the key books were assembled. This is one reason why all the 'Islamophobia' whataboutery whenever antisemitism is discussed in Britain is a bit of a red herring. 

Now clearly it is possible to be a Muslim who has no issues at all with Jews just as it is possible to be a Christian that's completely fine with homosexuality. But that doesn't mean we should ignore the fact that millions of people in these belief systems lean on scripture in order to condone and sometimes also preach bigotry. 

Or indeed that the Quran has a load more horrendous and explicitly dehumanising things to say about Jews than the Bible does about gays. ('Apes and pigs', 'apes and swine' etc. Surah Al-Baqarah 2:65–66, Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:60, and Surah Al-A'raf 7:166). 

In disparate other sections Jews are described as 'cursed'.

Beyond the Quran itself, there's that 'Gharqad' Tree Hadith, included in the Hamas founding charter, which exhorts the Islamic faithful to go out and murder any 'hiding' Jews they might locate. 

This is representative of is one of the key issues I have with all forms of scriptural religion in the wider sense: one can do all sorts of things that may work to change the balance of attitudes across society, improving people's willingness to live together in peace (which often means not taking everything so damn literally!), but those texts with imagined supernatural authority simply never go away, and there never ceases to be a danger of relapse via a return to the letter of the ancient word...which always appears to benefit from protections that other parts of the culture and the conversation clearly lack. 

(Meanwhile in the US, CAIR is pursuing actions against children who share AI-generated memes connected with nonsense tunes on Roblox which they deem insulting to Muslims or their beliefs. Baffling double standard?)