Schirrmacher claimed the book, which was seen as a roman à clef centering around Schirrmacher's predecessor Reich-Ranicki (a German literature critic of Jewish ancestry), contained anti-semitic passages.

Trainees studied the most intensely anti-Semitic passages of Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

It is possible that the anti-Semitic passages in her memoir were intended to be used as evidence that she was not Jewish; alternatively, she may have been influenced by Ezra Pound's anti-Semitic radio broadcasts.

In another, he quoted a long anti-Semitic passage from her autobiography "Les Memoires de Josephine Baker," written in Paris in 1949.

A Catholic, she was credited with helping win the deletion of anti-Semitic passages from the catechism with her analysis, "How Catholics Look at Jews" (Paulist Press, 1974).

The Dartmouth Review, a politically conservative student weekly, touched off widespread student and faculty protests on the New Hampshire campus over the weekend by printing an anti-Semitic passage from Hitler's "Mein Kampf."

More recent commentators continue to highlight the perceived anti-Semitic nature of the opera, and find correspondences with anti-Semitic passages found in Wagner's writings and articles of the period.

It is repeatedly suggested, not least in some sections of the Israeli press, that the European Union has been implicated in funding Palestinian schoolbooks which contain anti-Semitic passages.

The move comes after a French Catholic newspaper, La Croix, reported that some of his writings contained anti-Semitic passages.