Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in PDF
Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in PDF
Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in PDF
Description
How and why has anti-Zionism and antisemitism become so radical and widespread? This
timely and important volume argues convincingly that today’s inflamed rhetoric exceeds the
boundaries of legitimate criticism of the policies and actions of the state of Israel and conflates
anti-Zionism with antisemitism. The contributors give the dynamics of this process full
theoretical, political, legal, and educational treatment and demonstrate how these forces operate
in formal and informal political spheres as well as domestic and transnational spaces. They
offer significant historical and global perspectives of the problem, including how Holocaust
memory and meaning have been reconfigured and how a singular and distinct project of
delegitimization of the Jewish state and its people has solidified. This intensive but
extraordinarily rich contribution to the study of antisemitism stands out for its comprehensive
overview of an issue that is very much in the public eye.
Author Bio
Alvin H. Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of
English and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at
Indiana University Bloomington. He is editor of Deciphering the New Antisemitism and
Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives and author of The End of the Holocaust.
Reviews
“Beginning with wider perspectives and then narrowing to include national perspectives from
Israel, Poland, Germany, South Africa, the Czech Republic, and South Asia, this volume
explores the origins that underlie the current reality of antisemitic anti-Zionism, and indeed, it
makes the persuasive case that anti-Zionism today is essentially one of the most prominent
and pernicious forms of current antisemitism.”
— Mark Weitzman, Simon Wiesenthal Center
“This important volume should be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the state of
Israel and the extraordinary levels of criticism levelled not just against the policies of particular
governments, but against the very idea and existence of the state itself. These criticisms are
being voiced with growing insistence and attract considerable attention, uncritical approval,
and adherence. This volume offers a very different and much needed set of arguments that
persuasively counter much of what passes, particularly in progressive circles, for conventional
wisdom.”
— Philip Spencer, author of, Nations and Nationalism
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