Archive for March, 2009

Continuity and Change: Extreme Right Perceptions of Zionism

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Roni Stauber (2000). Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.

The article considers the anti-Zionism of far right ideologies. Specific attention is paid to the second half of the 20th century and to evidence of traditional Jewish conspiracy theories in anti-Zionist positions.



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The FP

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Brigitte Bailer and Wolfgang Neugebauer (1998). Contemporary Austrian Studies. Republished on the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOW).

The authors place the appeal of Jörg Haider and the Austrian far-right in the instability of the local and regional political scene. The antisemitism of Austria’s far-right is also explored.



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Right-Wing Extremism: History, Organisations, Ideology

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Brigitte Bailer and Wolfgang Neugebauer (1996). Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOW).

The article summarises the development of far-right extremism and antisemitism in Austria since the Second World War. The organisational structure of right-wing groups, their ideological foundations and the propaganda they disseminate are all addressed.



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Anti-Semitism in the Post-Soviet States

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Betsy Gidwitz (2003). Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA).

The author examines contemporary antisemitism in Russian and the Ukraine. Associating political antisemitism, fascism and violence against Jews with more general ethnic hatred in Russian and the Ukraine, she identifies significant differences with contemporary antisemitism in Western Europe. Most specifically, it is suggested that there is little evidence of antisemitism on the intellectual left, of antisemitism associated with anti-Zionism, of Islamist antisemitism or of the appearance of traditional Christian anti-Jewish imagery or of Holocaust inversion.



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Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the ‘New South Africa’

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Milton Shain (2007). Covenant.

Contemporary antisemitism and anti-Zionism in South Africa are explored. The perseverance of traditional antisemitic notions of Jewish conspiracy is seen to be largely absent in the public domain, whilst questions remain about the language and iconography visible in some anti-Zionist positions. Concerns about Islamist antisemitism are highlighted.



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The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Post-Soviet Russia

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Markus Mathyl (2000). Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.

The author examines the extent and consequences of political antisemitism in 1990s Russia. He suggests that evidence of the intensification of antisemitism and its penetration of mainstream politics in the last decade may imply that the conventional belief that state sponsored antisemitism could not reappear after perestroika may well be a premature suggestion.



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Hatreds Entwined

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Yossi Klein Halevi (2004). Azure.

The article considers evidence of antisemitic discourse in statements, slogans and articles from across the political spectrum that have targeted Israel, America and sometimes Jews generally as the focus of their ire. Traditional connotations of Jewish conspiracy, Jewish avarice and Jews as harbingers of a rootless world are seen to sit side by side with contradictory notions that reject Jewish nationalism and assertiveness as being contrary to contemporary European cosmopolitanism.



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Why Belarus Neo-Nazis are Confident in Their Impunity?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Yakov Basin (2002). Jews of Euro-Asia.

The article examines the state of antisemitism in Belarus. Examples of neo-Nazi violence and targeting of the Jewish community, and the governmental and societal response to it are highlighted.



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Anti-Semitic Incidents In the Netherlands: Report for 2005 and 1 January – 5 May 2006

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Hadassa Hirschfeld (2006). Center for Information and Documentation on Israel.

The report presents data on antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands. Analysis of the sources of antisemitism and efforts to counter antisemitism in the Netherlands are also provided.



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From Victim to Shylock and Oppressor: The New Image of the Jew in the Trotskyist Movement

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Werner Cohn (1991). Journal of Communist Studies. Reproduced on author’s site.

It is suggested that after 1967 a shift occurred and most groups and individuals associated with the Trotskyist movement began to characterize the Jews of Israel as an ‘oppressor nation’ and called for the destruction of Israel. The movement also began to distribute an earlier publication that characterized the Jewish tradition as one of usury. The question of antisemitism in the movement globally at the time of the author’s writing in 1991 is also considered.



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