Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,1 (2003) 69-77
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Both emancipation of the Jews and auto-emancipation (in the form of the State of Israel) failed to resolve the problem of antisemitism. The motifs of present-day anti-Zionists are uncannily like the motifs of classical antisemitism. In principle, anti-Zionism and antisemitism are distinguishable; one is a political position, the other a prejudice. Yet the overlap between antisemitic and anti-Zionist discourses today is considerable. Although antisemitism probably cannot be abolished except by totalitarian measures, proposes five democratic measures that can strengthen resistance to it: the reassertion of secular humanism; protection of cultural and religious pluralism; democratic debate on basic political matters; the deliberations need to take place in an equality-friendly society; and all of these come together in a "rooted cosmopolitanism" which rests on the legitimacy of plural loyalties while insisting on democratic commonality.
Note:
Appeared in French as "Auto-émancipation et antisémitisme; hommage à Bernard Lazare" in "Controverses" 7 (2008) 213-220.
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