Search results
Your search found 2 items
Sort: Relevance | Topics | Title | Author | Publication Year
Home  / Search Results
"Weiß er nicht, dass sie ihn umbringen werden?" Frankreichs islamischer Antisemitismus
Author(s): Funkschmidt, Kai
Date: 2016
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish Relations With Non-Jews: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: France is home to both the largest Muslim and the largest Jewish community in Europe. About 60% of the Jews and almost all the Muslims came from North Africa to France after 1945. After a brief look at the history of Muslim-Jewish relations, the paper looks at the current situation of antisemitism in France. Contrary to common assumptions violent, even murderous attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in France are almost entirely the work of Arab Muslim immigrants. The history of this violence goes back to the 1980s. The Jewish reaction is emigration. Many leave the country, even more move to other parts of town to neighbourhoods with fewer Muslims. The public reaction is often denial and silence, not so much about the acts as such but about the Muslim nature of the problem.
Von Sarah Halimi bis Georges Bensoussan: Debatten um Antisemitimus und Islamophobie in Frankreich
Translated Title: From Sarah Halimi to Georges Bensoussan: Debates on Antisemitimus and Islamophobia in France
Author(s): Funkschmidt, Kai
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Hate Crime, Islamophobia, Islamic Fundamentalism / Islamism
Abstract: The meek public reaction to the antisemitic murder of Sarah Halimi is indicative of a public unwillingness to acknowledge the threat of Muslim antisemitism in France.

This is compared to the trial of Jewish historian Georges Bensoussan. This trial shows how the ever more frequent accusation of "islamophobia" is used to intimidate academic critics of Islam. The strategy is now known as "jihad by trial" because it is efficient in silencing criticism even though almost all trials end in acquittals - but the process as such is disruptive for the life and work of the accused.