Islamophobia is mainstream in Europe while political antisemitism stays marginal

Evidence

Matti Bunzl has argued that while overt political antisemitism still exists in contemporary Europe, it is embraced mainly by the extreme Right, which occupies only a marginal position on the political horizon of the continent. When it comes to Muslims, Bunzl argues, Islamophobic political and mass media agendas appear to be much more mainstream. … For instance, Didier Fassin has highlighted how in France freedom of speech laws put Muslims at a disadvantage, and how Charlie Hebdo itself had put limits to its application of free speech when they fired one of its cartoonists for writing an antisemitic piece, but ignored contributions that were clearly Islamophobic. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1754

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the recent Charlie Hebdo coverage and to debates about asymmetric free-speech protections; also echoes the reader’s interest in differential treatment of speech.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1754