ISBN:
9781786806291
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 317 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lerman, Antony, 1946 - Whatever happened to antisemitism?
DDC:
305.8924
Keywords:
Antisemitism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Antisemitismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
A clear-sighted exploration of how antisemitism has been politicised, and the damaging consequences of its redefinition.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Varieties of Confusion in Understandings of Antisemitism -- 2. The Use and Abuse of Antisemitic Stereotypes and Tropes -- 3. Motivated by Antisemitism? Challenges to Zionism 1975-1989 -- 4. 'New Antisemitism': Competing Narratives and the Consequences of Politicisation -- 5. The Development of Institutions Combatting Antisemitism 1970s-2000 -- 6. The Turning Point: 'New Antisemitism' and the New Millennium -- 7. The Codification of 'New Antisemitism': The EUMC 'Working Definition' -- 8. Responding to 'New Antisemitism': A Transnational Field of Racial Governance -- 9. The Redefinition Project and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' Exposed -- 10. Human Rights: the 'Mask Under Which the Teaching of Antisemitic Contempt for Israel is Carried Out' -- 11. Geopolitics, Israel and the Authentication of 'New Antisemitism' -- 12. 'War' Discourse and its Limitations -- 13. 'Jewish Power', Medical Analogies and 'Eradication' Discourse -- 14. Apocalypticism: Defining the Discourse, Writing the Headlines and Generating Moral Panics -- 15. Against Typological Thinking: Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix: The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism -- Notes -- Index.
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