Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections
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This paper aims to disentangle the difficult relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. On one side, antisemitism appears as a pressing contemporary problem, intimately connected to an intensification of hostility to Israel. Opposing accounts downplay the fact of antisemitism and tend to treat the charge as an instrumental attempt to de-legitimize criticism of Israel. I address the central relationship both conceptually and through a number of empirical case studies which lie in the disputed territory between criticism and demonization. The paper focuses on current debates in the British public sphere and in particular on the campaign to boycott Israeli academia. Sociologically the paper seeks to develop a cosmopolitan framework to confront the methodological nationalism of both Zionism and anti-Zionism. It does not assume that exaggerated hostility to Israel is caused by underlying antisemitism but it explores the possibility that antisemitism may be an effect even of some antiracist forms of anti-Zionism.
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Antisemitism Antisemitism: Left-Wing Antisemitism: Muslim Antisemitism: New Antisemitism Main Topic: Antisemitism
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1940-610X; 1940-6118
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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections. . 2007: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-uk78
