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Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew'

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Antony LermanPublish date:2022-06-20Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pluto Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780745338774ISBN-10:745338771UPC:9780745338774Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Discrimination, Jewish Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social PolicySize:9.13 x 6.06 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC34RTYVNT

'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 organizations, Jewish communal defence bodies and sympathetic governments fighting a war against those who would criticize Israel.

The consequences of this redefinition have been alarming, supressing free speech on Palestine/Israel, legitimizing Islamophobic right-wing forces, and politicizing principled opposition to antisemitism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pluto Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780745338774ISBN-10:745338771UPC:9780745338774Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Discrimination, Jewish Studies, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social PolicySize:9.13 x 6.06 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC34RTYVNT
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).
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

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