Anti-Semitism

Book 2014

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ISBN:

9780737769487
9780737769470

Description:

xxv, 203 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

CHAPTER 1 : WHAT SOCIAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO ANTI-SEMITISM?
1. Racism and anti-semitism are often culturally validated / Jack Levin and Jim Nolan
2. Is homophobia the new anti-Semitism / Michelle Goldberg
3. Anti-Semitism is worse during an economic crisis / Ira Stoll
4. Anti-Semitism among African Americans was based on cultural factors that have now changed / Jim Sleeper
CHAPTER 2 : WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND ANTI-SEMITISM?
1. Anti-Semitism has Christian roots / Pieter van der Horst, as told to Manfred Gerstenfeld
2. The Christian church opposed the social Darwinism that fed Nazi anti-Semitism / Harry Schnitker
3. Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world has deep religious roots / Andrew Bostom, as told to Mark Tapson
4. Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world is linked to Israeli actions / Yossi Gurvitz
5. There are parallels between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism / Sabine Schiffer and Constantin Wagner
6. Anti-Semitism isn't Islamophobia / Phyllis Chesler
CHAPTER 3 : IS OPPOSITION TO ISRAELI POLICY LINKED TO ANTI-SEMITISM?
1. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism / David Solway
2. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism / Lex Rofes
3. Seeds of anti-Semitism / Michael Gerson
4. Did "The Israel Lobby" change anything? / Stephen M. Walt
5. Sounding off / Spencer Ackerman
6. The term "Israel firster" is not an anti-Semitic slur / Philip Weiss
CHAPTER 4 : WHAT POLITICAL GROUPS ARE LINKED TO ANTI-SEMITISM?
1. The Occupy Wall Street Movement is anti-Semitic / Ben Shapiro
2. Where are the anti-Semites of Occupy Wall Street? / Richard Cohen
3. US conservatives embrace white nationalist anti-Semites and racists / Menachem Z. Rosensaft
4. American liberals are guilty of anti-Semitism / Valerie Tarico
5. Anti-Semitism is growing among the European right / Alex Pearlman
6. The European left is more dangerous to Jews than the European right / Soeren Kern

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2013037236

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1203101

Other Authors:

Berlatsky, Noah

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