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Anti-antisemitismis opposition toantisemitismor prejudice against Jews, and just like thehistory of antisemitism,the history of anti-antisemitism is long and multifaceted.
Strategies
editOmer Bartov argues that a keyZionistbelief is that antisemitism cannot be meaningfully addressed in any way other than the establishment of an independent state where Jews make up the majority of the population.[1]
Yair Wallachargues that non-Bolshevik Jewish activists played an essential role in the successes of early Soviet anti-antisemitism, and he also argues that this fact proves that Jewish activists are essential to effectively combating antisemitism in 2021.[2]
In the US, a plethora of novels which opposed antisemitism was published in the 1940s, a subgenre ofsocial protest literature.[3]
After the2015 European migrant crisis,the German institutions have created positions for fighting antisemitism, sometimes specifically, sometimes with additional responsibilities. These positions are covered bynon-Jews,but they work with German Jewish organizations and theGerman-Israeli Society.[4]
Anti-antisemitism and antiracism
editOpposition to antisemitism in the United Kingdom is historically connected toanti-racism,but in the 1990s, it began to diverge.Anthony Lester,the drafter of theRace Relations Act 1976,cited his experience of antisemitism to write a bill combating all forms of racial prejudice. According to Gidley et al, this divergence came about in part due to disagreement over Zionism and anti-Zionism.[5]The idea ofwhite privilege,structural racism,and perceptions that racism is based on skin color and colonialism made it harder to identify antisemitism.[2][5]
Some scholars argue thatIslamophobiais similar to antisemitism because bothprejudicesare ethnoreligious prejudices.[6]In the twenty-first century, severalpopulist radical rightparties in Western Europe began to use anti-antisemitic and pro-Israel rhetoric as a means to oppose Muslim immigration and promote the belief that a clash of civilizations is occurring between Judeo-Christian Europe and theMuslim world.[7]This belief is expressed along with the belief that Jews who live outside Israel are not part of the nations in which they live because they are only tolerated guests.[7]In Hungary, right-wing parties such asFideszand laterJobbikdistanced themselves from antisemitism and expressed pro-Israel beliefs, although Fidesz also promotesGeorge Soros conspiracy theories.According to anthropologist Ivan Kalmar, "Anti-antisemitism allows populists to promote Islamophobia openly without the fear of being labelled Nazis."[6]
According to historianOmer Bartov,political controversies around antisemitism involve "those who see the world through an antisemitic prism, for whom everything that has gone wrong with the world, or with their personal lives, is the fault of the Jews; and those who see the world through an anti-antisemitic prism, for whom every critical observation of Jews as individuals or as a community, or, most crucially, of the state ofIsrael,is inherently antisemitic ".[1]
Anti-antisemitism is "a defining marker of post-war German identity".Juduth Gruberargues that the belief that Germany has successfully confrontedThe Holocaustenables the projection of antisemitism onto the outside world, especially to Muslim immigrants—a subtle form of Islamophobia that coexists with the vehement rejection of antisemitism.[8]Hannah C. Tzuberi argues that in Germany, anti-antisemitism can go beyond the identification of Germans with Jews because it can even include the identification of Germans as Jews and the identification of Germany as Israel.[9]
The German institutional effort against antisemitism is not accompanied by an equivalent effort againstIslamophobia,racismandanti-Ziganism.[4] Berlin officer Samuel Salzborn has argued that antisemitism and racism in Germany are different.[4][10]
Anti-antisemitism and philosemitism
editIt is disputed whether or not anti-antisemitism is synonymous withphilosemitism,but anti-antisemitism often includes the "imaginary and symbolic idealization of ‘the Jew’" which is similar to philosemitism.[11]
Anti-antisemitic watchdogs
editAccording toJonathan Judaken,anti-antisemitic watchdogs "may inadvertently help stoke new cases by giving activists a megaphone". He suggested that watchdog groups raise money by portraying antisemitism as a serious threat. In the United States, all watchdogs are pro-Israel.[12]
Public opinion
editAccording to public opinion surveys, the amount of anti-antisemitism in Poland (defined as "the rejection of any statements criticizing Jews" ) increased between 2002 and 2012.[13]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^abBartov, Omer (2022)."Antisemitism in History and Politics".Antisemitism Studies.6(1):100–114.doi:10.2979/antistud.6.1.05.ISSN2474-1817.
- ^abWallach, Yair (2021)."How to fight antisemitism? Lessons from the Russian Revolution"(PDF).Ethnic and Racial Studies.45(8):1520–1527.doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1954221.S2CID237641688.
- ^Gordan, Rachel (2021). "The 1940s as the Decade of the Anti-Antisemitism Novel".Religion and American Culture.31(1):33–81.doi:10.1017/rac.2021.6.S2CID235473785.
- ^abcKuras, Peter (July 18, 2023)."The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats".Jewish Currents.Retrieved13 August2024.
- ^abGidley, Ben; McGeever, Brendan; Feldman, David (2020)."Labour and Antisemitism: a Crisis Misunderstood".The Political Quarterly.91(2):413–421.doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12854.S2CID218969189.
- ^abKalmar, Ivan (2020). "Islamophobia and anti-antisemitism: the case of Hungary and the 'Soros plot'".Patterns of Prejudice.54(1–2):182–198.doi:10.1080/0031322X.2019.1705014.S2CID219021241.
- ^abKahmann, Bodo (2017). "'The most ardent pro-Israel party': pro-Israel attitudes and anti-antisemitism among populist radical-right parties in Europe ".Patterns of Prejudice.51(5):396–411.doi:10.1080/0031322X.2017.1394663.S2CID148849065.
- ^Judith Gruber (2021)."At the Intersection of Racial and Religious Othering: Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue as a Performance of White Christian Innocence?".Answerable for our Beliefs.ISBN978-90-429-4742-9.
- ^“THE SUN DOES NOT SHINE, IT RADIATES” On National(ist) Mergings in German Philosemitic Imagery of Tel Aviv Hannah C. Tzuberi
- ^Sandrisser, Nils (24 February 2020).""Antisemitismus" und "Rassismus" erklärt "(in German). Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau. Archived fromthe originalon 31 July 2023.Retrieved13 August2024.
Im Unterschied zum Rassismus, der auf punktuellen Vorurteilen aufbaut, ist Antisemitismus aber ein umfassendes Weltbild. Das heißt, dass Antisemiten alles, was sie an der modernen Welt nicht verstehen oder ablehnen, antisemitisch deuten. Im Unterschied zu anderen Diskriminierungsformen erscheinen Juden im Antisemitismus zudem immer als schwach und mächtig zugleich.
- ^Samuels, Maurice (2021). "Philosemitism".Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism.Springer International Publishing. pp.201–214.ISBN978-3-030-51658-1.
- ^Judaken, Jonathan (2021)."The Politics of the Gesture: The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, Antiracism, and Intersectionality".American Jewish History.105(1):205–211.doi:10.1353/ajh.2021.0011.ISSN1086-3141.S2CID239734933.
- ^Krzemiński, Ireneusz (2019)."Polish National Antisemitism".Polin Studies in Polish Jewry.31:515–542.doi:10.3828/polin.2019.31.515.ISSN2516-8681.
Further reading
edit- Judaken, Jonathan (2006).Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual.University of Nebraska Press.ISBN978-0-8032-0563-5.
- Lapidot, Elad (2020).Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism.State University of New York Press.ISBN978-1-4384-8046-6.