GENERAL ANALYSIS The year 2000 witnessed a sharp increase in antisemitic expressions in the Arab media. At the beginning of the year developments in the Middle East, such as the military escalation in Lebanon, coincided with events in Europe and the US, such as the trial of Holocaust denier David Irving, serving to radicalize the anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric. In the last quarter of the year, the outbreak of the al-Aqsa intifada brought in its wake a further upsurge in antisemitism, which included the previously unknown phenomenon of acts of vandalism against Jewish holy sites in the West Bank. The...