‘This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications’ – Lynne Segal
Antisemitism is one of the most controversial topics of our time. The public, academics, journalists, activists and Jewish people themselves are divided over its meaning. Antony Lerman shows that this is a result of a 30-year process of redefinition of the phenomenon, casting Israel, problematically defined as the ‘persecuted collective Jew’, as one of its main targets.
This political project has taken the notion of the ‘new antisemitism’ and codified it in the flawed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s ‘working definition’ of antisemitism. This text is the glue holding together an international network comprising the Israeli government, pro-Israel advocacy groups, Zionist organisations, Jewish communal defence bodies and sympathetic governments fighting a war against those who would criticise Israel.
The consequences of this redefinition have been alarming, supressing free speech on Palestine/Israel, legitimising Islamophobic right-wing forces, and politicising principled opposition to antisemitism.
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Acknowledgements
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
1. Varieties of Confusion in Understandings of Antisemitism
2. The Use and Abuse of Antisemitic Stereotypes and Tropes
3. Motivated by Antisemitism? Challenges to Zionism 1975–1989
4. ‘New Antisemitism’: Competing Narratives and the Consequences of Politicisation
5. The Development of Institutions Combatting Antisemitism 1970s–2000
6. The Turning Point: ‘New Antisemitism’ and the New Millennium
7. The Codification of ‘New Antisemitism’: The EUMC ‘Working Definition’
8. Responding to ‘New Antisemitism’: a Transnational Field of Racial Governance
9. The Redefinition Project and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ Exposed
10. Human Rights: The ‘Mask Under Which the Teaching of Antisemitic Contempt for Israel is Carried Out’
11. Geopolitics, Israel and the Authentication of ‘New Antisemitism’
12. ‘War’ Discourse and its Limitations
13. ‘Jewish Power’, Medical Analogies and ‘Eradication’ Discourse
14. Apocalypticism: Defining the Discourse, Writing the Headlines and Generating Moral Panics
15. Against Typological Thinking: Summary and Conclusions
Appendix: The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
Notes
Index
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Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. He is the author of The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (Pluto, 2012) and editor of Do I Belong? (Pluto, 2017).
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