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This book analyzes the two major trends in antisemitism today. Old antisemitism, based in religious and racist prejudices, has resurfaced in the wake of weakening nation states in a globalized world. "New" antisemitism, or the antisemitic narrativization of Israel, has grown in the shadow of the protracted conflict in the Middle East.
List of contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Continuity and Change of Antisemitism
Mikael Shainkman
Different Antisemitisms: On Three Distinct Forms of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe, with a Special Focus on Sweden
Lars Dencik and Karl Marosi
Holocaust Memory and Holocaust Revisionism in Poland and Moldova: A Comparison
Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska
Honoring the Collaborators: The Ukrainian Case
Irena Cantorovich
The Rise of the Radical Right in Europe and the Jews
Michael Whine
The Worrisome Defiance of the Golden Dawn
Michal Navoth
The Struggle over the International Working Definition of Antisemitism
Dina Porat
Discrimination against Muslims and Antisemitic Views among Young Muslims in Europe
Günther Jikeli
Debates on Islamized Antisemitism in Austria in the Wake of the Israel-Gaza Conflict, 2014
Julia Edthofer
Antisemitism and the Struggle for the ¿Good¿ Society: Ambivalent Responses to Antisemitic Attitudes and Ideas in the 2014 Swedish Electoral Race
Kristin Wagrell
Mohamed Omar and the Selective Detection of Non-Nazi Antisemitism
Mathan Ravid
After the Charlie Hebdo Attack: The Line between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech
Andre Oboler
Online Antisemitic Propaganda and Negationism in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Ahmadinejad and His Enduring Legacy
Liora Hendelman-Baavur
The Nisman Case: Its Impact on the Jewish Community and on National Politics in Argentina
Adrian Gruszniewski and Lidia Lerner
Venezueläs 2012 Presidential Elections: Introducing Antisemitism into Venezuelan Political Discourse
Lidia Lerner
Bibliography
About the Contributors
About the author
Mikael Shainkman (PhD) is a research fellow at the Moshe Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, and Editor of the Center's series of Position Papers. His research focuses mainly on antisemitism and historical culture: his doctoral thesis, "Heroes and Victims: The Holocaust in Israeli Historical Culture", dealt with how the Holocaust has been remembered, understood and used in Israeli society.
Summary
Illustrates the two clear trends in antisemitism today: "old" antisemitism, based in religious and racist prejudices; and "new" antisemitism, or the antisemitic narrativization of Israel, which is most commonly found on the Left, in the Muslim world, and in the post-colonial discourse.
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“Compiled
by Mikael Shainkman, a researcher at Tel Aviv University, this informative
collection of papers focusses largely –
but not exclusively – on contemporary European anti-Semitism. … Shainkman’s collection, in short, constitutes a
valuable addition to the corpus of literature about contemporary anti-Semitism
in Europe and elsewhere. Experts on anti-Semitism, as well as laymen interested
in this phenomenon, will undoubtedly discover much of interest amongst its
contributions.” —David Rodman, Israel Affairs, Vol. 25
