Full Description
How and why have anti-Zionism and antisemitism become so radical and widespread? This timely and important volume argues convincingly that today's inflamed rhetoric exceeds the boundaries of legitimate criticism of the policies and actions of the state of Israel and conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. The contributors give the dynamics of this process full theoretical, political, legal, and educational treatment and demonstrate how these forces operate in formal and informal political spheres as well as domestic and transnational spaces. They offer significant historical and global perspectives of the problem, including how Holocaust memory and meaning have been reconfigured and how a singular and distinct project of delegitimization of the Jewish state and its people has solidified. This intensive but extraordinarily rich contribution to the study of antisemitism stands out for its comprehensive overview of an issue that is very much in the public eye.
Contents
Introduction / Alvin Rosenfeld
I. Ideological and Theoretical Sources and Implications
1. The New Replacement Theory: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Denial of History / James Wald
2. From Wilhelm Marr to Mavi Marmara: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism as Forms of Anti-Jewish Action / Thorsten Fuchshuber
3. Social Criticism and the "Jewish Problem" / Balázs Berkovits
4. New Challenges in Feminism: Intersectionality, Critical Theory and Anti-Zionism / Karin Stöegner
II. University, Legal, and Historical Frameworks
5. The Role of International Legal and Justice Discourse in Promoting the New Antisemitism / Gerald M. Steinberg and Anne Herzberg
6. Leaving the Post-Holocaust Period: The Effects of Anti-Israel Attitudes on Perceptions of the Holocaust / Catherine D. Chatterley
7. Antisemitism in the Guise of Anti-Nazism: Holocaust Inversion in the UK during Operation Protective Edge / Alan Johnson
8. Fraser v. UCU: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and Racializing Discourse / Lesley Klaff
9. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson
III. Israeli Voices
10. "There Was No Uncorrupt Israel": The Role of Israelis in Delegitimizing Jewish Collective Existence / Gil Ribak
11. The Appropriation of the Israeli "New Historians" Work by Anti-Zionists / Ilan Greilsammer
12. Christian BDS: An Act of Love? / Giovanni Matteo Quer
IV. National Contexts
13. Configurations of Antisemitism: The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland 1968 / Simon Gansinger
14. Germany's Changing Discourse on Jews and Israel / Marc Grimm
15. The Roots of Anti-Zionism in South Africa and the Delegitimization of Israel / Milton Shain
16. From Donetsk to Tel Aviv: Czech Antisemitic Movements Respond to The Russian-Ukrainian War / Zbyněk Tarant
17. Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in South Asia: A Case Study of Lucknow / Navras Jaat Aafreedi
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