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24 - Anti-Zionism as Antisemitism

from Part III - The Modern Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Dina Porat
Edited by
Steven Katz
Steven Katz
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

The roots and history of the term “anti-Zionism” and its relationship to antisemitism are explored. A distinction is drawn between objections to Zionism within the framework of the Jewish people and the use and abuse of the term as a political tool in the public international arena, which may be expressed with antisemitic motifs and images.

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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 448 - 464
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Ben-Itto, H., The Lie That Wouldn’t Die, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (London, 2005). Judge Ben-Itto analyzes the sources of the Protocols, the formation of their first text, their dissemination worldwide and the trials in which the libel was exposed and refuted.Google Scholar
The Elder of Zion blog.Google Scholar
The Electronic Intifada blog.Google Scholar
Fine, R., and Philip, S., Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question (Manchester, 2017). The authors juxtapose two results of universalism, one that offered a progressive way to emancipate Jews and one of suppressing Jewish particularity, while relying on the works of Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt and Juergen Habermas.Google Scholar
Harrison, B., Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion (Bloomington, IN, 2020). Analyzes the persistent antisemitic belief held by groups at both ends of the political spectrum that Jews dominate world affairs and are the root of all the world’s evils.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Herf, J., ed., Convergence and Divergence: Anti- Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective, a special issue of the Journal of Israel History 25.1 (March 2006). This special issue includes thirteen essays, all dealing with antisemitism and anti-Zionism from a variety of angles, places and movements.Google Scholar
Lewis, B., Semites and Anti-Semites; An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (London, 1987). This analysis of the terms “Semites” and “Jews,” the wars against Zionism and against the Jews, and even New Antisemitism (termed as early as the 1980s) has become a classic in the field.Google Scholar
Litvak, M., and Webman, E., From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (London, 2009). This Washington Institute winner examines attitudes crystallized in the Arab and Moslem world toward the Israeli-Arab conflict in the wake of the Holocaust, from 1945 to 2000.Google Scholar
Marcus, L. K., The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford, 2015). This book deals with the Working Definition of Antisemitism, adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in May 2016, which has since stirred an intensive cross-national debate, regarding freedom of speech versus freedom of incitement, and regarding anti-Zionism as antisemitism.Google Scholar
Nelson, C., Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism and the Faculty Campaign against the Jewish State (Bloomington, IN, 2019). Nelson’s study addresses the phenomenon of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in North American colleges and universities, where parts of the faculty, as well as students, launch an attack on Israel that allegedly contradicts values they believe in.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosenfeld, A. H., ed., Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism, the Dynamics of Delegitimization (Bloomington, IN, 2019). This volume features seventeen essays, collected following an April 2016 Indiana University conference, under the same title, in which seventy scholars from sixteen countries participated.Google Scholar
The Stephen Roth and the Kantor Center Annual Reports on Antisemitism Worldwide, 1994–2019, Tel Aviv University, www.KantorcentertauGoogle Scholar
Wistrich, R., Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Contemporary World (New York, 1990). In both this book and the one listed below, Wistrich explores how the left has come to betray both the Jews and Israel: Jews whose political, traditional home was the leftist parties and Israel, which began as a socialist country, were gradually depicted by the political left as symbolizing the opposite values.Google Scholar
Wistrich, R., From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews and Israel (Lincoln, NE, 2012).Google Scholar

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