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Antisemitism is a kind of historical permanence that awakens in very diverse contexts. This plasticity and mutation power are difficult to counter because they constantly produce variants that complicate the analysis. Antisemitism can come from anywhere (from the political sphere of right and left), and it has obviously nothing to do with what Jews do, say or think, and how they are in the world. Often in history, antisemitic speeches have been held or sustained in the conviction that this anti-Jewish struggle was about saving something: a world or an idea, protecting something or someone and it was already, in the eyes of its promoters, a form of virtuous activism. All our religious traditions—Jewish, Christian, Muslim have the resources to break out of the theological impasses in which some of their thinkers lock them.