Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,2 (2012) 469-493
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism Historiography
Abstract:
Summarizes surveys conducted in Slovakia in the 1990s-2000s. Anti-Jewish and anti-alien sentiments declined in this period, with anti-Jewish attitudes less pronounced than anti-alien and anti-Gypsy ones. The sentiments and attitudes are not matched by antisemitic actions or antisemitic rhetoric on the part of politicians or in the media. The hostility to Jews has stabilized at ca. 10% of the population. Slovakian-Hungarian and Slovakian-Gypsy cleavages are stronger and more politically significant than that with Jews. Despite that, 2012 witnessed nationalist attacks against the Minister of Internal Affairs, Daniel Lipšic, who was accused of having Jewish origins and also of contacts with the Israeli Mossad. Antisemitism has been present in Slovakia throughout its twenty years of independence. Three forms of antisemitic discourse have been prevalent in the country: historical (in particular, rehabilitation of the wartime Tiso regime), political (interpretation of current politics as an ethnic struggle between Slovaks and Jews), and international (mainly anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism).
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