Antisemitism - The Generic Hatred Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal

by Fineberg, Michael; Weitzman, Mark; Samuels, Shimon

• ISBN13: 9780853037453
• ISBN10: 0853037450
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

Dedicated to the memory of the 'conscience of the Holocaust', Simon Wiesenthal - to whom it offers a number of personal tributes - this book brings together essays by a wide variety of authors on antisemitism and related forms of intolerance, racism, and xenophobia. Starting from the idea that antisemitism constitutes a paradigm case of collective and individual hatred, the book examines some of the reasons why it has prospered over the ages and persists in our time, even after well-nigh universal condemnation of the Holocaust. Some authors see it as a virus, always ready to develop and spread wherever Jewish difference is resented. Others emphasize that the antisemitic myths are not grounded in reality but depend rather on a fabrication, an imagined being to whom every kind of vice and perversion can be attributed. Jews, Gypsies, Kurds, Armenians, Tutsis they can all be made to fit the bill. Simon Wiesenthal believed not in vengeance but in justice for the victims and played a pre-e

Table of Contents

Lessons or the Holocaust : the early warning system	p. 1
Anti-Zionism and antisemitism	p. 9
The new antisemitism : an assault on human rights	p. 15
The Durban protocols : globalization of the new antisemitism	p. 33
Journey to hell	p. 46
The protocols of the elders of Zion and the 'propaganda of liberalism'	p. 59
Defending change in Arab societies : conspiracy theories and their Arab critics	p. 67
Antisemitism as a mental disorder	p. 77
The psycho-historical foundations of antisemitism	p. 87
Humour against hate	p. 94
Antisemitism and anti-Westernism in the women's movement	p. 101
Common ground for hatemongers : incitement on the Internet	p. 109
Antisemitism on campus : a view from Britain	p. 119
Admission is not acceptance : reflections on the Dreyfus affair	p. 129
The Nazi extermination of the disabled as a prelude to the Holocaust	p. 140
The importance of prosecuting Nazi war criminals in post-communist Europe	p. 147
How should the Holocaust be understood : the Elie Wiesel/Simon Wiesenthal controversy of the late 1970s	p. 156
Who needs forgiveness? : further thoughts on the moral dilemma posed by Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower	p. 165
Forgiveness and reconciliation after the Shoah	p. 176
Conspiracy theories and the incitement of hatred : the dynamics of deception, plausibility and defamation	p. 182
The Kreuzberg initiative against antisemitism among youth from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds in Berlin	p. 198
Antisemitism is the legitimate child of Islamism : the real cancer of Islam	p. 212
The absurdity of antisemitism in the Arab World	p. 218
Containing antisemitism : a model for combating negrophobia	p. 232
Containing antisemitism : lessons for tolerance from Northern Ireland	p. 246
Holocaust and antisemitism studies in China	p. 251
Touch the nerve : a personal journey	p. 264
When it's not enough to know : the European experience	p. 270
Reflections on Simon Wiesenthal and the concept of genocide	p. 276
The historiography of antisemitism in the shadow of the Holocaust	p. 285
Antisemitism : mutations of a virus	p. 301
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