mr. goldhagen argues that anti-semitism is more threatening today than at any other time since the holocaust. this lasts about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, rabbi hamilton, and thank all of you for being here.

mr. goldhagen argues that anti-semitism is more threatening today than at any other time since the holocaust. this lasts about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, rabbi hamilton, and thank all of you for being here. it's a thick book, there's an enormous amount of information about what's going on today in it, both qualitative and quantitative data. so survey numbers and accounts of what people think, what they do and what the consequences of their actions are. i can't possibly tell you everything that's in the book tonight, but i'm going to give you a sense of the phenomenon of global anti-semitism, its rise and its threat so that i hope you emerge from here with a greater understanding of something that everyone, really practically everyone, jew and gentile, old and young at some point wonders about, why the jews? why are they hated so much, why have they been persecuted so much? so, first, relate me tell you a -- let me tell you a few snippets of things that will give you a flavor of what's out there. in surveys of european union, we find regularly that 40-50% of them, of europe