This reassuring narrative that remembers
antisemitism as a relic of bygone times disregards what Walter Benjamin, the great critic of historiography, called the correspondence between the past and the present: that we never remember the past itself, but that memory is always an expression of the past in the present.
of North Texas) introduces the "old-new
antisemitism" that now permeates campuses as anti-Zionism.
The rhetoric of radical anti-Zionism, even when it sails under the flag of "antiracism" is proving itself a "worthy" heir of racist
antisemitism. Like its prewar predecessors, it, too, claims to be "liberating humanity" from a highly dangerous and universal yoke; this time round, the "tyrant" is Israel--the collective Super-Jew--rather than the specter of Das Weltjudentum (World Jewry) as the Nazis preferred to call their global enemy.
By all traditional standards of measurement,
antisemitism would seem to be a passing phenomenon.
It has become customary to ascribe all anti-Israelism, a term that has come to describe a systematic prejudice against Israel, to
antisemitism. As Hillel Halkin put it, "the new anti-Israelism is nothing but the old
antisemitism in disguise." (1) Some prefer the formulation that the new
antisemitism is nothing but the old
antisemitism in the guise of anti-Israelism.
The Tower Hamlets Council in London rejected an application from The Big Ride for Palestine to hold a welcome event in a council-run park because of concerns that the event was too "controversial" and conflicted with the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of
antisemitism.
One is at a purely ideological level, which has been to force a change in the official definition of '
antisemitism'.
Spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn hits back at "false" claims made by Labour peers who signed Guardian advert on
antisemitism. "Many have a public record of opposition to Jeremy Corbyn." Adds reform of House of Lords is party policy and topic for next manifesto.
"We contacted Labour after receiving a number of complaints about allegations of
antisemitism in the party," the Equality and Human Rights Commission said in a statement.
In 1896, Theodor Herzl proposed Zionism as a solution to
antisemitism. (1)
Antisemitism, he argued, was a result of Jews being people without a national homeland.
antisemitism - the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people