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The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial
Author(s): Elam, 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.
Antisemitism in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Marginal or Central Issue?
Author(s): Volovici, Leon
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Politics, Surveys
Abstract: Surveys on present trends of post-Communist antisemitism in Eastern Europe reveal contradictory images of the weight and significance of current anti-Jewish manifestations and rhetoric. An evaluation of the main themes of the present antisemitic discourse points to the predominance of irrational myths -- the“Jewish (or Israeli) conspiracy” and world-wide “Jewish power.” In addition, the public debate on the Holocaust and collectiveresponsibility for crimes against the local Jewish population has had a significant impact on public discourse. Questions of national identity, a tendency towards historical distortion and mystification, and the propagandistic accusation of “Jewish guilt” for the former repressive communist regimes form another area of contention which leads to anti-Jewish manifestations.The reproduction and spread of antisemitic motifs is found mainly in political discourse. In order to understand whether antisemitic political groups are central or marginal, it is necessary to consider the degree of their acceptance or support bymainstream political forces, direct or insidious forms of legitimation for them, as well as the force of the antisemitic tradition,and the amplitude of public or official reactions against either the vulgar or the sophisticated expressions of antisemitism
Antisemitism in Contemporary Greek Society
Author(s): Perdurant, Daniel
Date: 1995
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Christianity, Jewish - Christian Relations
Abstract: Examines antisemitism in various aspects of Greek society in the 1980s and early 1990s. Regarding religious antisemitism, the official position of the Orthodox Church recognizes Judaism's contribution to Christianity and condemns antisemitism, but some in the Church exhibit anti-Jewish sentiments, hiding behind opposition to Zionists and Chiliasts (Jehovah's Witnesses). Greeks often confuse the terms Israelis, Zionists, and Jews. Discusses issues such as antisemitic texts in government schoolbooks, legislation against racial discrimination (which has rarely been enforced), political antisemitism expressed on occasion by the socialist PASOK party and by the Communist party, extreme right and terrorist organizations [e.g. ENEK (United Nationalist Movement), Ethniko Metopo (National Front), Chrysi Avghi (Golden Dawn)], antisemitic press and literature, and antisemitic incidents. The most common way of dealing with antisemitism in Greece is denial of its existence.
Antisemitism of the Ukrainian Radical Nationalists: Ideology and Policy
Author(s): Dymerskaya-Tsigelman, Luidmilla; Finberg, Leonid
Date: 1999
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Nationalism
„Vorm Antisemitismus ist man nur noch auf dem Monde sicher“ Antisemitismus und Antiamerikanismus in Deutschland
Editor(s): Zentrum Demokratische Kultur; Amadeu Antonio Stiftung
Date: 2004
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Muslim, Education, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Neben Beiträgen zur Genese des Antisemitismus, zum islamistischen Antisemitismus und zu aktuellen Aspekten von Antisemitismus und Antiamerikanismus in Deutschland widmet sich die Broschüre in mehreren Artikeln dem Umgang mit Antisemitismus in der Bildungs- und Projektarbeit. Dabei werden Vorschläge für die pädagogische Annäherung in der außerschulischen Bildungsarbeit, in Schule und Unterricht sowie in multikulturellen Lerngruppen gegeben.
Antisemitism Today and Tomorrow: Global Perspectives on the Many Faces of Contemporary Antisemitism
Editor(s): Shainkman, Mikael
Date: 2018
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Hate crime, Terrorism
Abstract: This book illustrates the two clear trends in antisemitism today: “old” antisemitism, based in religious and racist prejudices, which has largely disappeared from public discourse in the West after the defeat of Nazi Germany, but has resurfaced in the last quarter-century in the face of right wing frustration of weakening nation states in a globalized world; and “new” antisemitism, or the antisemitic narrativization of Israel, which is most commonly found on the Left, in the Muslim world, and in the post-colonial discourse.

This collection of essays analyzes both old and new antisemitisms, in order to understand their place in the world of today and tomorrow. It is written by experts in the field of antisemitism working for, or connected with, the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Continuity and Change of Antisemitism
Mikael Shainkman

Different Antisemitisms: On Three Distinct Forms of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe, with a Special Focus on Sweden
Lars Dencik and Karl Marosi

Holocaust Memory and Holocaust Revisionism in Poland and Moldova: A Comparison
Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska

Honoring the Collaborators: The Ukrainian Case
Irena Cantorovich

The Rise of the Radical Right in Europe and the Jews
Michael Whine

The Worrisome Defiance of the Golden Dawn
Michal Navoth

The Struggle over the International Working Definition of Antisemitism
Dina Porat

Discrimination against Muslims and Antisemitic Views among Young Muslims in Europe
Günther Jikeli

Debates on Islamized Antisemitism in Austria in the Wake of the Israel-Gaza Conflict, 2014
Julia Edthofer

Antisemitism and the Struggle for the “Good” Society: Ambivalent Responses to Antisemitic Attitudes and Ideas in the 2014 Swedish Electoral Race
Kristin Wagrell

Mohamed Omar and the Selective Detection of Non-Nazi Antisemitism
Mathan Ravid

After the Charlie Hebdo Attack: The Line between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech
Andre Oboler

Online Antisemitic Propaganda and Negationism in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Ahmadinejad and His Enduring Legacy
Liora Hendelman-Baavur

The Nisman Case: Its Impact on the Jewish Community and on National Politics in Argentina
Adrian Gruszniewski and Lidia Lerner

Venezuela’s 2012 Presidential Elections: Introducing Antisemitism into Venezuelan Political Discourse
Lidia Lerner
“Remembering Semitism” or “On the Prospect of Re-Membering the Semites”
Author(s): Hochberg, Gil Z.
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Islamophobia, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Racism, Antisemitism: Far right
Abstract: Today, a growing number of French Jews embrace the far-right French Front National party, which has a long history of anti-Semitism – how did we get here? How is it that Jews turn to the French authorities for protection against so-called Muslim anti-Semitic violence? How is it that we see a similar pattern across Europe: in Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Britain? This essay addresses these questions by calling atten-tion to the role played by the absent-present Christian West in creating and aggravat-ing tensions between Jews and Muslims while seemingly fulfilling the role of mediation between the two. The essay suggests that current popular images of Jews and Muslims circulating in Western media ironically echo nineteenth-century European depictions of Semites – both Jews and Muslims as devoted monotheistic fanatics controlled by zeal and despotism and in need of external salvation. The bulk of the essay thus focuses on “Semitism” and examines the role of nineteenth-century European philology in dissemi-nating Western perceptions of Jewish and Muslim inferiority. Finally, the essay advocates a re-appropriation of Semitism as an alternative memory, or rather a re-memory which as such is also a re-membering of Jews and Muslims along their shared historical position as radical Others within the hegemonic, Western, Euro-Christian epistemological order
Konstellationen des Antisemitismus: Antisemitismusforschung und sozialpädagogische Praxis
Editor(s): Stender, Wolfram; Follert, Guido; Özdogan, Mihri
Date: 2010
Topics: Antisemitism, Education, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism: Far right
Abstract: Antisemitismus erscheint heute in der unübersichtlichen Gestalt von Antisemitismen: Islamistischer Antisemitismus, antisemitischer Antizionismus von rechts, links und aus der Mitte, alte wie neue Varianten des sekundären Antisemitismus, Antisemitismus ‚von unten’. Dies alles begegnet sich im lokalen Raum globalisierter Gesellschaftsverhältnisse und stellt nicht nur die Politik, sondern auch die Bildungs-, Jugend- und Sozialarbeit vor große Herausforderungen. Der Band präsentiert Ergebnisse der neuesten Antisemitismusforschung und entwirft Grundlinien für eine antisemitismuskritische Kompetenz in der Sozialen Arbeit.
Gebildeter Antisemitismus: Eine Herausforderung für Politik und Zivilgesellschaft
Editor(s): Schwarz-Friesel, Monika
Date: 2015
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Dieser Band präsentiert neueste Forschungsergebnisse zum gebildeten Antisemitismus in der deutschen egenwartsgesellschaft durch Beiträge führender Antisemitismusforscher_innen. Themenschwerpunkte sind Judeophobie und antiisraelischer Antisemitismus in der Alltagskommunikation, dem Internet sowie in der massenmedialen Berichterstattung. Empirische Fallstudien und Korpusanalysen dokumentieren, dass Judenfeindschaft keineswegs bloß ein Phänomen an den Rändern, sondern ein gesamtgesellschaftliches Problem darstellt. Zunehmend finden sich zudem auch bei gebildeten Funktionsträger_innen aus der Mitte der Gesellschaft antisemitische Äußerungen im öffentlichen Kommunikationsraum. Der Sammelband soll dazu beitragen, Expert_innenwissen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zu präsentieren und in das Bewusstsein der Öffentlichkeit zu bringen.
Antisemitismus in Zentraleuropa: Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Translated Title: Anti-Semitism in Central Europe Germany, Austria and Switzerland from the 18th century to the present
Author(s): Bergmann, Werner; Wywra, Ullrich
Date: 2011
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Antisemitismus ist ein aktuelles Problem in Zentraleuropa. Er ist jedoch keine der europäischen Menschheit eingeschriebene Konstante, sondern ein Phänomen, das in einem spezifischen historischen Kontext entstanden ist, als politische Einstellung, soziale Praxis und weltanschauliche Orientierung in Erscheinung trat und sich zur Legitimation auf die Tradition der christlichen Judenfeindschaft berief. Im Zuge der sozioökonomischen Umwälzungen des ‚langen’ 19. Jahrhunderts aufgekommen, war der Antisemitismus am Ende dieses Zeitalters Ausdruck der kulturellen Krise. Er wurde zu einer zivilisationskritischen Sammelbewegung, die den Juden die Schuld an allen gesellschaftlichen Konflikten und Verunsicherungen gab. Der Zusammenbruch des alten Europa durch den Ersten Weltkrieg und die verheerenden moralischen Folgen der Kriegsniederlage riefen eine Radikalisierung des Antisemitismus hervor. Antisemitische Einstellungen gehörten zum Kern der nationalsozialistischen Weltanschauung, und führten während des Zweiten Weltkrieges zum Völkermord an den europäischen Juden. Der Holocaust hatte jedoch keineswegs das Verschwinden des Antisemitismus zur Folge. Er nahm nach 1945 neue Züge an und äußert sich in Form eines Schuldabwehr-Antisemitismus, als Holocaustleugnung oder Antizionismus.
Anti-Antisemitic Enthusiasm & Selective Philosemitism: Geert Wilders, the PVV and the Jews
Author(s): Gans, Evelien
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Philosemitism, Antisemitism: Far right