Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel

Robert S. Wistrich

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780803296718
• eBook ISBN:
  9780803296725
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

Although early Zionist thinkers perhaps naively believed that anti-Jewish persecution would end with sovereignty, anti-Zionism has become one form of the “new” antisemitism following World War II. Because antisemitism has not been effectively addressed, anti-Jewish rhetoric, activism, and deadly violence have flourished around the world.
               In Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel editor Robert S. Wistrich and an array of notable academics, journalists, and political scientists analyze multiple aspects of the current surge in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric and violence. Contributors Ben Cohen, R. Amy Elman, Lesley Klaff, Matthias Küntzel, Nelly Las, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, and Efraim Sicher, among others, examine antisemitism from the perspectives of history, academia, gender, identity, and religion. Offering a variety of viewpoints and insights into disturbing trends worldwide, the contributors provide a basis for further discussion and increased efforts to counter the increasingly vocal and violent hatred of Jews and Israel.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• In Memoriam
• Preface
• 1. Antisemitism in the Age of Jewish Empowerment
• 2. The West’s Auto-Immune Disease
• 3. Antisemitism/Anti-Zionism: Primal Pillars in Europe’s Decay
• 4. Israelophobia Is the New Antisemitism
• 5. Antisemitic Terror and Identity Theft
• 6. What Precisely Is “Criticism of Israel”?
• 7. South Africa, Apartheid, and the Road to BDS
• 8. The Postcolonial Jew: Racialization, Delegitimization, Ambiguity
• 9. Anti-Zionism as a Form of Political Warfare
• 10. Israel and the Jews as Prisms for Understanding Europe Today
• 11. Convergent Anti-Zionisms: The American Far Left and Far Right
• 12. Jewish Anti-Zionism: From Critique to Delegitimization
• 13. Studying Antisemitism: Some Troubling Trends in Academia
• 14. Jewish Attitudes Facing Antisemitism: A Gender Analysis
• 15. Antisemitism and the Return of Universalismin Contemporary France
• 16. France, Antisemitism, and the Prognosis for European Jewry
• 17. Holocaust Inversion in British Politics: The Case of David Ward
• 18. The European Union and the Politics of Denial
• 19. Amnesia and Antisemitism in the “Second Jagiellonian Age”
• 20. Anti-Zionism in Contemporary Russia: Eurasian, Islamic,and Left-Populist Trends
• 21. Iranian Antisemitism and the International Response
• 22. Antisemitism in Turkey during Operation Protective Edge
• 23. Radical Islam, Zionism, and the Western Media
• 24. The Jews, Israel, and Palestinian Replacement Theology
• 25. Gaza, Hamas, and the “New” Antisemitism
• Contributors
• Index