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The political case for diversity: managing difference in Jewish diaspora organisations
Author(s): Pick, Edith
Editor(s): Forson, Cynthia; Healy, Geraldine; Öztürk, Mustafa B.; Tatli, Ahu
Date: 2024
Topics: Jewish Organisations, Diversity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Attempting to grasp the elusive, contextual, and contested nature of ‘diversity’, this chapter traces the discursive struggle over the term within UK Jewish organisations. While the business case and the social justice case advocate for economic and moral approaches to diversity, diaspora organisations reveal how diversity discourse can echo political rationales and reproduce nationalistic ideas. By analysing official organisational statements, the chapter explores how the construction of diversity links to questions of unity, loyalty, and belonging; how diversity travels across national borders, identities, and organisational locations; who benefits and who is being marginalised by the shrinking and bending of diversity; and what room is left for equality and inclusion debates.
Protocols of political forgiveness: forgetting and forgiving antisemitism in Greek right-wing politics
Author(s): Boukala, Salomi
Editor(s): Cap, Piotr
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Politics
Abstract: This chapter examines forgiveness as a political communication concept and strategy in the domain of race and discrimination discourse. Specifically, it focuses on the act of apology as a means to re-establish the image of a political liberal while being known for previous discriminatory declarations and practices. Following the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Studies, it studies statements of apology by three Greek ministers, made in response to accusations of their past antisemitic mindset. The analysis draws on the synthesis of the Aristotelian rhetoric and the DHA theory of argumentation schemes, identifying different kinds of topoi and other argumentative devices in the texts and pointing to their general function in the apology and forgiveness discourse. From a sociopolitical standpoint, the chapter paints a comprehensive picture of antisemitism in contemporary Greece, tracing its roots to the rapid growth of the extreme right and the role political forgiveness has played in the process.