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The Politics of Anti-Semitism is a book edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair and published by AK Press in 2003.. Contributors include former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, former senior CIA analysts Bill and Kathy Christison, professor of philosophy Michael Neumann, Capitol Hill staffer George Sutherland, assistant professor of ...
Apr 4, 2003 · A thoughtful survey of the political and cultural conditions that fueled 20th-century Europe’s war on the Jews. Both extending and revisiting the arguments advanced in Ideology of Death (1996), Weiss (History/CUNY) traces what he identifies as the five major sources of anti-Semitism in European history: Christian hostility to Jews, “obviously never the message of Christ”; commercial ...
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978-1-56663-600-1 • Paperback • June 2004 • $16.95 • (£12.99) Subjects: History / World, History / General, History / Europe / General, History / Holocaust. The Politics of Hate shows how anti-Semitism and racism developed as a major element in the European political processfrom the late nineteenth century to the Holocause.
architects of modern political antisemitism, who explained the concept as follows: anti—to oppose, Semitism—the essence of the Jewish race; anti-Semitism is therefore the struggle against Semitism. 5 In recent years, no reputable authority would embrace a definition, like these, which assumes that Jews actually possess the character traits
Antisemitism, Jew-hatred, and Islamophobia are modern terms signifying prejudices toward collectives that are defined in religious terms.¹ The historian working on the medieval period encounters many sources that attest to collective hostility toward various monotheistic religious groups.
Dec 1, 1986 · Reviewed by John C. Campbell. Winter 1986/87 Published on December 1, 1986. A distinguished historian sheds light on the experience of the Jews in the West and in the Islamic world and explores the causes and nature of the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. He does not dwell at length on the Arab-Israeli conflict over Palestine, although he ...
Oct 4, 2018 · The peculiar vehemence with which anti-Semites such as Richard Wagner attack Jewish artists indicates the extent to which they conceive of the battle against Jews in essentially aesthetic terms. 32 Moreover, as Alice Kaplan and David Carroll have shown, literature provides the ideal analogue for the totalizing impulses of the anti-Semitic, fascist mindset. 33 This vision of the world as an ...
