There’s much to recommend in this review by Christopher Hitchens of Globalising Hatred, Denis MacShane’s new book on antisemitism.
Archive for the 'anti-Semitism' Category
If you look here you’ll find an interesting letter in today’s Guardian. It’s from Professor Shindler of the School of Oreiental and African Studies of the University of London and succintly deals with certain aspects of the relationship between some Palestinian nationalists and Nazi Germany.
I’ve already looked at a theory about what might be delaying the beatification of Pope Pius XII and I have now come across an even more advanced example of it here. The theory, briefly but not unfairly put, holds that the only thing that is holding the former Pope back from beatification and later becoming a saint is the antipathy of the Jews towards him and their over influence the Vatican.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Antisemitism is tolerated in Hungary - and not only in its crudest form, as when a uniformed rabble marches in the streets or when Neo-Nazis provoke Jews in front of their synagogues. It is also part and parcel of Hungarian right wing politics. Usually antisemitism is coded, but the code is very simple. Here is just one recent example.
Continue reading ‘“The cosmopolitan-parasite class…”: Antisemitism in Hungary’
Is the recent agreement between North Korea and the United States, whereby the latter took the former off its list of countries that support terrorism in exchange for the former reopening access to its nuclear facilities, a model for a future settlement of the nuclear standoff between Iran and those countries who don’t want it to develop nuclear weapons? The answer is no, because the two countries are very different from each other and they have very different aims in their negotiations with the outside world.
Over at Normblog, there’s a great post by Eve Gerrard in which she goes to work on certain arguments against Zionism.
La Nación is an Argentine newspaper comparable in many respects to the Daily Telegraph in the UK. It’s serious, well produced and right wing in a respectable old money kind of way. In today’s edition it carries a brief story from an anonymous special correspondent in Rome which reports on a speech by Pope Benedict XVI exalting the memory of his predecessor Pope Pius XII.
Here we go again.
“For some of us, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for reflection and atonement for the individual and collective injustices we have committed or have allowed to happen. Through taking collective responsibility we seek a year of greater possibility for justice in Palestine, the broader region and our world.”
Continue reading ‘Jewish Anti-Zionists: From Vanity to Lunacy’
There follows my response to certain matters raised in the third post, titled “Racism and Anti-Semitism”, in a series by Samuel Fleischacker - hereinafter referred to as SF - about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, currently appearing over at Normblog. My responses to the two previous posts can be found here and here.
Continue reading ‘A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 3”’
Norman Geras has a response here to this debate between David Hirsh and Martin Shaw on whether the eternally proposed academic boycott of Israel would be antisemitic in nature. I’m not going to quote from it because I think that it should be read in its entirety and citing a paragraph might give readers of this blog the impression that they had got the gist of the argument and could move on elsewhere.
A few months ago, I debated Antony Lerman, the Director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, on the relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Today, Lerman has a piece in Ha’aretz on a similar theme. He complains that scholarly discussion of antisemitism has been corrupted by an excessive focus on anti-Zionism.
Continue reading ‘Antony Lerman Plays Politics with Antisemitism’
Over at Normblog and under the title ‘A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict’, Samuel Fleischacker begins what promises to be an extremely interesting series of posts here. Although I share his overall view that what is involved in this conflict is a “tragic clash of just claims”, I’d like to take issue here with some of the points he makes.
Continue reading ‘A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict”’
I wrote here about Evelyn Hecht-Galinski going to law to try to prevent Henryk Broder calling her what she quite obviously is, an antisemitic anti-Zionist. Well, now she has had her day in court and it has ruled that she cannot restrain Broder from calling her antisemitic as long as he gives reasons to justify his opinion.
Just occasionally, the good guys win. On the 14th of November last year in Buenos Aires, a bus driver shouted racial insults at the son of a rabbi who wanted to board his vehicle then physically attacked him, smashing his glasses, before kicking him back on to the street. The youth found a policeman and told him what had happened and the policeman managed to stop the bus and arrest the driver.
