Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Deutschland und Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2006) 147-185
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Anti-Zionism
;
Anti-Zionism History 21st century
;
Left-wing extremists
;
Germany Foreign relations
;
Israel Foreign relations
Abstract:
Traces the complex relations between Germany and Israel from the 1960s to 2004, focusing on the development of Left radical anti-Zionism in Germany. Distinguishes between five different types of antisemitism: antisemitism rooted in the European anti-Judaism of the Nazi period; neo-liberal antisemitism of the middle-class; neo-Nazism of adolescents; imported Islamic antisemitism; and Left-wing antisemitism deriving from anti-globalization, anti-Americanism, and anti-Israel groups, which are closely examined. The Left was not always infused with anti-Israel sentiments. With the reparations deal in the early 1950s a process of normalization began. But after 1967 an anti-Zionist worldview developed within the New Left in Germany which identified with the PLO. In 1982 the Middle-East debate became more acute; Israelis were viewed as "Nazis" and the Palestinians became the "new Jews". Since the outbreak of the Al-Aksa Intifada in 2000, the German pro-Palestinian front intensified, adopting radical Islamic ideology. Concludes with the 2004 anti-Zionist campaign of peace movements, which organized the conference "Stop the Wall" in which 20 organizations participated.
Note:
An abridged and revised version, with the same title, appeared in "Exklusive Solidarität" (2007) 301-323.
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