The radicalization of Islam in South Africa from the 1970s onwards was marked by a negative shift in Muslim attitudes towards South African Jews. Some of the anger was underpinned by landlord-tenant relations in the inner city, by encounters within the textile industry, and by the general anger concerning white privilege with which Jew were generally associated. The most important factor influencing Muslim-Jewish relations in the last 25 years is undoubtedly Zionism and the Jewish community's support for Israel