Language:
French
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Controverses; revue d'idees
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (2009) 268-273
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism in mass media
;
Operation Cast Lead, 2008-2009
Abstract:
Describes and warns of the consequences of the symbolic pogroms carried out in the media against Israel during the war in Gaza in 2008-09. States that the "humanitarian" concern for the fate of the Palestinians is part of an ideology which sacralizes the memory of dead Jews (the Shoah), while condemning Jews who are alive. The media accusations, although seemingly pointed at Israel, are in fact aimed at the Jews, and have revived the "Jewish question" in France. In the face of today's antisemitism, French Jews are expected to remain passive to safeguard republican peace. The new role of the Jew in France is that of a "magnificent pariah", a revered and celebrated person living in miserable conditions, which society needs to rally around in times of crisis to remind itself that it is humanitarian despite conflicts of power and prestige. Warns that the celebration of Jewish victimhood only incites jealousy among antisemites and encourages them to attack the Jews even more.
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