So what's new? Rethinking the ‘new antisemitism’ in a global age
2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 42; Issue: 4-5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00313220802377453
ISSN1461-7331
Autores ResumoABSTRACT ABSTRACT Judaken discusses the various strands that constitute the so-called 'new antisemitism'. He argues that this is not the first time a new crisis of antisemitism has been heralded. Indeed, in the wake of every major struggle in the Arab-Israeli conflict since the Six Day War, prominent scholars and advocates have sounded the alarm about a crisis resulting from the rise of what they designated a 'new antisemitism'. Moreover, what writers point to as the vectors of the new antisemitism—Holocaust denial, the antisemitism of the extreme left, antisemitism in the Islamic world, anti-Zionism as antisemitism, even anti-racism as antisemitism—all have a fairly long history. What has changed are the role of information technologies and the geo-global context in which they function. These technologies have both facilitated the global dissemination of antisemitism as well as furnishing new means of combatting it. At bottom, this electronic warfare is both a symptom and a cause of the global forces at work in antisemitism today. After delineating the constellation of factors in the rise of global antisemitism post-September 2000, Judaken then draws on the work of Léon Poliakov, Judith Butler, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Frankfurt School, among others, to assess what Pierre-André Taguieff most aptly calls the 'new Judaeophobia'. Keywords: anti-Americanismanti-Israelismantisemitismanti-ZionismglobalizationHolocaust denialnew antisemitismnew Judaeophobiapost-Zionismracism Acknowledgements I also want to thank Étienne Balibar, whose very thoughtful comments helped to reshape some of my thoughts. The paper was sharpened by presenting it at Arizona State University, where I was grateful for the comments of, among others, Norbert Samuelson, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Arieh Saposnik, and at the University of Virginia, where I was especially grateful to Jennifer Geddes, Alon Confino and Asher Biemann. I also want to thank Törbjorn Wandel, Anne Reef and Kent Schull for their input.
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