Posted on 08/01/2013 10:52:03 AM PDT by Nachum
“The study of antisemitism,” admits Bruno Chaouat, a professor of French in Minnesota, “can be tedious.” This admirably candid confession appears relatively early in the pages of Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, a collection of nineteen new essays edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, the distinguished director of Indiana University’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and author of several major books about the Holocaust. Chaouat is right, of course: while a single anecdote about irrational hate can breed sorrow, anger, and/or shock, a thick book consisting entirely of such material is more likely to be, quite simply, numbing. It is Rosenfeld’s accomplishment to have assembled a volume that, rather than seeming to repeat the same points over and over again, feels consistently fresh as it moves from region to region, approaches its topic from one angle after another, and serves up new historical information and cultural insights at every turn.
Most of the essays illuminate the current situation for Jews in a specific corner of the world: Alejandro Baer sums up antisemitism in today’s Spain; Zvi Gitelman does the same for the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe; Szilvia Peremiczky focuses on Hungary and Romania; Rifat N. Bali, on Turkey. And Paul Bogdanor proffers an account of antisemitism in modern Britain, as expressed in a thoroughly ugly-sounding play, “Seven Jewish Children,” by Caryl Churchill, and an equally horrid little poem about “the Zionist SS,” written by the well-known poet (and Oxford professor) Tom Paulin and published a few months before 9/11 in The Observer.
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I’ve had some business dealings in Central and South America. Have been rather stunned by the manner in which nasty anti-Semitic comments will pop up out of the blue, unsolicited and generally off-topic.
I’m not Jewish. The business had nothing to do with Israel.
But they somehow felt the need to share some unsolicited Jew hatred.
Welcome to my world.
Antisemitism is again becoming fashionable in Europe. Absent of course is the harsh ugly rhetoric and carictures. However boycotts of Israeli products, exclusion of Israeli academics from conferences at major universities, and physical attacks on Jews in Western European cities is troubling.
Jews “stand for” the reality of God (as Creator, loving, and .... expecting loving, moral behavior by His created critters... people).
Many people do NOT WANT that message.
They WANT to live their lives the way they wish (as immorally and hateful as that may be).
They RESENT that ANYBODY “stands for” a message that they somehow “should” lead more loving, moral lives.
(That Jews and Christians share or represent the same essential message in this world.... means that Christians suffer similar treatment to Jews ... whenever the “pagans” or “communists” or “progressives” or “Moslems” or “Islamicists” or other “terrorists” think they can get away with it.)
This is a visceral resentment ... it goes to the very core of the hate=filled person... they want to kill off the message and so, to do it, they lash out at and kill the carriers of that message.
All the world hates Jews - they’d like nothing better than to see Israel destroyed and all Jews annihilated. But then, who would they focus their anger on???
If the Jews are gone, they'll get serious about the Christians, e.g., Egypt and the Copts. "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."
Quoth Hillary, the next president of Amerika:
“F****** Jew B*******”
Aren’t they already doing that? Read what happens in African countries where there’s Christians, or Pakistan .....
Yes, they are.
Here on FR the Jews, Catholics, Mormons, agnostics, gnostics as well as the Muslims all get to whine and play oh me, oh my, I feel like a victim.
What race are you? Maybe you can score a double hitter.
You’re not special, just someone somebody hates. So what, join the crowd.
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