Original sentence: According to Bernard Lewis, for most of the last 1,400 years, Arabs have not been antisemitic, though Anti-Jewish sentiments did flare up at times of the Muslim political or military weakness or when Muslims felt that some Jews had overstepped the boundary of humiliation prescribed to them by the Islamic law.By the 1980s, Lewis continues, the volume of antisemitic literature published, and the authority of its sponsors, seemed to suggest classical antisemitism to be an essential part of Arab intellectual life, considerably more than in late nineteenth and early twentieth century France, and almost as much in Nazi Germany.The issues surrounding Arabs and antisemitism address several aspects involving the history of Arab and Jewish coexistence in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited sentence: According to Bernard Lewis, for most of the last 1,400 years, Arabs have not been antisemitic, because Islam, the major religion of the Arabs, was generally compatible with Judaism and did not foster theological conflicts that would result in antisemitism.By the 1980s, Lewis argues, the volume of anti-Semitic literature published, and the authority of its sponsors, seemed to suggest classical antisemitism to be an essential part of Arab intellectual life, considerably more than in late nineteenth and early twentieth century France, and almost as much in Nazi Germany.The issues surrounding Arabs and antisemitism implicate the full history of the Arab and Jewish coexistence in the Middle East and North Africa