The Greek left-wing and the ‘Jewish problem’: analysing antizionism and antisemitism as forms of soft hate speech
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This paper seeks to explore whether and how the Greek left-wing criticism against Israeli politics challenges the state of Israel’s right to exist and spreads antisemitic mythopoesis by utilising ‘soft hate speech’. In particular, my aim is to shed light on an ideological paradox – the utilisation of discriminatory discourse by the Greek left – a multidimensional political power consisted of a wide range of ideologies that all defend human rights and are characterised by progressive perspectives; a point that reveals that antisemitism is well rooted in the Greek society, revives in times of crisis and penetrates the whole political spectrum. By applying the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and its argumentation strategies as an appropriate theory and methodology to analyse in detail such utterances, my attempt is to show how antisemitism has been constituted as a common sense beyond the limits of the far-right populist discourses.
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Antisemitism: Discourse Antisemitism: Left-Wing Main Topic: Antisemitism Discourse and Discourse Analysis
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The Greek left-wing and the ‘Jewish problem’: analysing antizionism and antisemitism as forms of soft hate speech. 2024: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/17405904.2024.2440884
