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Antisemitism and Its Transnational Inhibitions: 1930s Europe and Now
Author(s): Elman, R Amy
Editor(s): Kohen, Ari; Steinacher, Gerald J.
Date: 2021
Topics: Antisemitism, Holocaust, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Augmenting the European Union's Response to Antisemitism
Author(s): Elman, R Amy; Grimm, Marc
Date: 2016
Topics: Antisemitism, European Union, Main Topic: Antisemitism
The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial
Author(s): Elman, R Amy
Date: 2015
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Education against, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism: New Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Monitoring, Antisemitism: Discourse, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Terrorism, European Union, Integration
Abstract: This study asks if the European Union (EU) has the capacity or the will to counter antisemitism. The desire to counter antisemitism was a significant impetus toward the formation of the EU in the twentieth century and now prejudice against Jews threatens to subvert that goal in the twenty-first. The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial offers an overview of the circumstances that obliged European political institutions to take action against antisemitism and considers the effectiveness of these interventions by considering two seemingly dissimilar EU states, Austria and Sweden.

This examination of the European Union’s strategy for countering antisemitism discloses escalating prejudice within the EU in the aftermath of 9/11. R. Amy Elman contends that Europe’s political actors have responded to the challenge and provocation of antisemitism with only sporadic rhetoric and inconsistent commitment; this halfhearted strategy for countering anti-Semitism exacerbates skepticism toward EU institutions and their commitment to equality and justice. This exposition of the insipid character of the EU’s response simultaneously suggests alternatives that might mitigate the subtle and potentially devastating creep of antisemitism in Europe.