Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: The Redefinition of a Persistent Hatred Hardcover – December 20, 2021 by Antony Lerman

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Author: Lerman Antony

Brand: Pluto Press

Package Dimensions: 0x215x788

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 20-12-2021

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Antisemitism is one of the most controversial topics of our time. The public, academics, journalists, activists and Jewish people themselves are divided over its meaning. Antony Lerman shows that this is a result of a 30-year process of redefinition of the phenomenon, casting Israel, problematically defined as the ‘persecuted collective Jew’, as one of its main targets. This political project has taken the notion of the ‘new antisemitism’ and codified it in the flawed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s ‘working definition’ of antisemitism. This text is the glue holding together an international network comprising the Israeli government, pro-Israel advocacy groups, Zionist organizations, Jewish communal defence bodies and sympathetic governments fighting a war against those who would criticize Israel. The consequences of this redefinition have been alarming, supressing free speech on Palestine/Israel, legitimizing Islamophobic right-wing forces, and politicizing principled opposition to antisemitism.

About the Author

Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. He is the author of
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (Pluto, 2012) and editor of
Do I Belong? (Pluto, 2017).