Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Immigrants & Minorities
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,1 (2009) 82-117
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations History 1945-
Abstract:
Antisemitism has a long religious and historical tradition in Shi'ite Iran. The establishment of Israel, especially as viewed by the 1979 revolution that brought Khomeini and the Islamic Republic to power, has added a political dimension to hostililty toward the Jews. While the ruling Shi'ite clerics sometimes hide their antisemitic attitudes, e.g. by letting others express them or by claiming that they are merely anti-Zionist or anti-Israel, at other times they express their antisemitism overtly. Alongside references by clerics like Khomeini to the religious-based "impurity" of Jews, one finds five recurring antisemitic themes, some political and some with a religious (Muslim or Christian) basis, relating to Jewish conspiracies, modeled after the popular "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"; Holocaust denial or minimization; a charge that Jewish Israelis are committing genocide against the Palestinians; blood libel charges; and an accusation of Jewish distortion of the Qur'an.
DOI:
10.1080/02619280902895835
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