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Muslim hostility to Israel and Jews in Europe: is it antisemitism as we know it?
On 4 August I posted a piece by the Washington-based historian and independent scholar Dr Steven Beller in which he discussed the question: ‘Anti-Jewish hostility provoked by the Gaza offensive: is antisemitism the right word for it?’ It generated a lively response in … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, Middle East
Tagged anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Islamism, Islamophobia, Israel, new antisemitism, Zionism
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The end of liberal Zionism? Most commentators say ‘no’
For anyone interested in what has been said–and it’s overwhelmingly critical–in response to the thesis I laid out briefly in my op-ed in the New York Times on 24 August, ‘The End of Liberal Zionism’, here are the titles and … Continue reading
Posted in Jews worldwide, Middle East
Tagged 2-state solution, Israel, Palestine, Zionism
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British Zionism, Jews and Gaza
Most Zionist organizations and Jewish leaders in the UK found it very difficult to cope with the fallout from Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. They were criticized from the right and the left. The right-wing Zionism they espouse ever more aggressively … Continue reading
Posted in British Jews
Tagged antisemitism, Board of Deputies, Community Security Trust, Gaza, Israel, New Israel Fund, Yachad, Zionism, Zionist Federation
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The end of liberal Zionism – my op-ed in the New York Times
I have long been convinced that only one form of Zionism has any agency and significance today: it’s the dominant Zionism in Israel, xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism, carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East
Tagged 2-state solution, AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, antisemitism, Israel, Netanyahu, Palestine, Palestinians, Zionism
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9/11 and the destruction of the shared understanding of antisemitism
This piece is cross-posted from openDemocracy Even before 9/11, the redefinition of antisemitism as essentially left-wing and Islamic prejudice and discrimination against the Jewish state of Israel—‘the Jew among the nations’—was well underway. But the popularity of this reformulation of … Continue reading
Israel and the Anti-Boycott Law: The Wider Implications of Popular Indifference
This piece is cross-posted from openDemocracy where it was published on 19 July. A small part of it appeared in my earlier post on the anti-boycott law (13 July). The motivation for the law is not primarily to give voice … Continue reading
Former Canadian Minister of Justice Cotler: ‘Calling Israel an Apartheid State is Not Antisemitic’
Professor Irwin Cotler, the former Canadian Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Commission for Combatting Antisemitism, recently told Ha’aretz journalist David Sheen: ‘You can criticize an Israeli policy or action as having been not only a violation of … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism
Tagged apartheid, EUMC, Irwin Cotler, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, new antisemitism, racism, UCU, Zionism
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