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Anti-Semitic Motifs in Anti-Israelism

November 1, 2002 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

When earlier this year Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago compared the situation in Ramallah to Auschwitz, he unwittingly staked his claim to become the archetype of the new anti-Semite. These defamers target the Jewish State rather than the religious or ethnic character of the Jews. In a single statement he utilized three classic anti-Semitic techniques: the dehumanization and demonization of Jews, the hijacking of Jewish symbols, and the use of such symbols against the Jews.

Europe’s Bias: From the Holocaust’s Aftermath to Today’s Anti-Semitism II

October 30, 2002 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

A further way to enlarge one's perspective on post-war attitudes toward the Jews is by analyzing events in individual countries. Since it will take a long time for overviews to become available, the best one can do in the interim is to consider some important issues as well as telling episodes in specific countries. These may then give a stimulus for further research by scholars who study other countries. Hereinafter, a series of such vignettes are presented. They provide, by necessity, an impressionistic picture and can be extended to further cases as well as to other countries not mentioned below. Each country must be assessed individually. As none is typical for the broader picture, no single country can be used as a paradigm. Yet the following brief observations indicate potential directions for further research.

Europe’s Bias: From the Holocaust’s Aftermath to Today’s Anti-Semitism

October 30, 2002 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

An intensified defamation campaign against Israel and world Jewry has been taking place during the last two years. Various European governments and media play an important role in it. The moral aspects of post-war European attitudes toward the Jews have as yet been poorly analyzed. Their study within an integrated framework is becoming an urgent Jewish public affairs issue. As so little field research has been done much can be learned by looking at a mosaic of vignettes of individual countries such as France, Austria, Poland, the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and the Vatican. The paradigm of The Netherlands is discussed in more detail. This essay illustrates how part of the infrastructure for Europe's current discriminatory attitudes toward Israel and the Jews started to be laid immediately after the war.

Sweden’s Refusal to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals: 1986-2002

October 21, 2002 | Efraim Zuroff

The Jews in Plans for Postwar Germany

October 21, 2002 | David Bankier

Emotional Wounds that Never Heal

October 21, 2002 | Dr. Nathan Durst

The Israeli Government, Holocaust Issues, and Anti-Semitism

October 1, 2002 | Michael Melchior

Ernst Nolte and the Memory of the Shoah

October 1, 2002 | Prof. Sergio Itzhak Minerbi

Europe’s Bias: From the Holocaust’s Aftermath to Today’s Anti-Semitism – Part I

October 1, 2002 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Historians Receiving Gifts and the Historiography of the Holocaust

October 1, 2002 | Dr. Robert Kaplan

Europe’s Bias: From the Holocaust’s Aftermath to Today’s Anti-Semitism – Part II

October 1, 2002 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Durban’s Troubling Legacy One Year Later: Twisting the Cause of International Human Rights Against the Jewish People

August 20, 2002 | Irwin Cotler

The Destruction of the Temple Mount Antiquities

August 1, 2002 | Mark Ami-El

Europe’s Moral Attitudes toward the Holocaust in Light of the Current Defamation of Israel

April 1, 2002 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Terrorism and Racism: The Aftermath of Durban

December 16, 2001 | Prof. Anne Bayefsky

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