Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (2009) 63-69
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Anti-Zionism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Despite widespread belief that antisemitism had died in Auschwitz and is impossible in a post-Holocaust world, it returned in the guise of a "new antisemitism", merging with anti-Zionism, and "secondary antisemitism", due to the fact that Jews are a reminder of various countries' responsibility for the Holocaust. The fight against this new wave of antisemitism is futile unless three things are taken into account: that antisemitism and anti-Zionism cannot be disentangled; that there is a phenomenon of "Jewish antisemitism" that fulfills an important legitimizing function in current antisemitic discourse; and that the "new antisemitism" is not a phenomenon "sui generis", but the product of a transformation and contextualization of the "old antisemitism".
DOI:
10.1080/23739770.2009.11446352
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