antisemitism

This reassuring narrative that remembers antisemitism as a relic of bygone times disregards what Walter Benjamin, the great critic of historiography, called the correspondence between the past and the present: that we never remember the past itself, but that memory is always an expression of the past in the present.

of North Texas) introduces the "old-new antisemitism" that now permeates campuses as anti-Zionism.

The rhetoric of radical anti-Zionism, even when it sails under the flag of "antiracism" is proving itself a "worthy" heir of racist antisemitism. Like its prewar predecessors, it, too, claims to be "liberating humanity" from a highly dangerous and universal yoke; this time round, the "tyrant" is Israel--the collective Super-Jew--rather than the specter of Das Weltjudentum (World Jewry) as the Nazis preferred to call their global enemy.

By all traditional standards of measurement, antisemitism would seem to be a passing phenomenon.

It has become customary to ascribe all anti-Israelism, a term that has come to describe a systematic prejudice against Israel, to antisemitism. As Hillel Halkin put it, "the new anti-Israelism is nothing but the old antisemitism in disguise." (1) Some prefer the formulation that the new antisemitism is nothing but the old antisemitism in the guise of anti-Israelism.

The Tower Hamlets Council in London rejected an application from The Big Ride for Palestine to hold a welcome event in a council-run park because of concerns that the event was too "controversial" and conflicted with the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism.

One is at a purely ideological level, which has been to force a change in the official definition of 'antisemitism'.

Spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn hits back at "false" claims made by Labour peers who signed Guardian advert on antisemitism. "Many have a public record of opposition to Jeremy Corbyn." Adds reform of House of Lords is party policy and topic for next manifesto.

"We contacted Labour after receiving a number of complaints about allegations of antisemitism in the party," the Equality and Human Rights Commission said in a statement.

In 1896, Theodor Herzl proposed Zionism as a solution to antisemitism. (1) Antisemitism, he argued, was a result of Jews being people without a national homeland.