New Book: Rosenfeld, Deciphering the New Antisemitism

Rosenfeld, Alvin H., ed. Deciphering the New Antisemitism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.

Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Contributors are an international group of scholars who clarify the cultural, intellectual, political, and religious conditions that give rise to antisemitic words and deeds. These landmark essays are noteworthy for their timeliness and ability to grapple effectively with the serious issues at hand.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Part I. Defining and Assessing Antisemitism
1. Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The Inversion of the Debt – Pascal Bruckner
2. The Ideology of the New Antisemitism – Kenneth L. Marcus
3. A Framework for Assessing Antisemitism: Three Case Studies (Dieudonné, Erdoğan, and Hamas) – Günther Jikeli
4. Virtuous Antisemitism – Elhanan Yakira

Part II. Intellectual and Ideological Contexts
5. Historicizing the Transhistorical: Apostasy and the Dialectic of Jew-Hatred – Doron Ben-Atar
6. Literary Theory and the Delegitimization of Israel – Jean Axelrad Cahan
7. Good News from France: There Is No New Antisemitism – Bruno Chaouat
8. Anti-Zionism and the Anarchist Tradition – Eirik Eiglad
9. Antisemitism and the Radical Catholic Traditionalist Movement – Mark Weitzman

Part III. Holocaust Denial, Evasion, Minimization
10. The Uniqueness Debate Revisited – Bernard Harrison
11. Denial, Evasion, and Anti-Historical Antisemitism: The Continuing Assault on Memory – David Patterson
12. Generational Changes in the Holocaust Denial Movement in the United States – Aryeh Tuchman

Part IV. Regional Manifestations
13. From Occupation to Occupy: Antisemitism and the Contemporary Left in the United States – Sina Arnold
14. The EU’s Responses to Contemporary Antisemitism: A Shell Game – R. Amy Elman
15. Anti-Israeli Boycotts: European and International Human Rights Law Perspectives – Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias
16. Delegitimizing Israel in Germany and Austria: Past Politics, the Iranian Threat, and Post-national Anti-Zionism – Stephan Grigat
17. Antisemitism and Antiurbanism, Past and Present: Empirical and Theoretical Approaches – Bodo Kahmann
18. Tehran’s Efforts to Mobilize Antisemitism: The Global Impact – Matthias Küntzel

List of Contributors
Index

ALVIN H. ROSENFELD holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University Bloomington. He is editor of Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives (IUP, 2013) and author of The End of the Holocaust (IUP, 2011), among other books.

 

New Article: Turgeman & Hadaria, The Birth of New Anti-Semitism in Public and Academic Discourse in Israel

Turgeman, Asaf, and Gal Hadaria. “‘Arab Anti-Semitism Debate’: The Birth of New Anti-Semitism in Public and Academic Discourse in Israel.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 14.3 (2015): 501-19.

 

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2015.1032018

 

Abstract

This paper aims to identify the emergence of the concept “new anti-Semitism” in both public discourse and academic research in Israel. Our main argument is that the new anti-Semitism has emerged in tandem with changing values within Israeli society, primarily the adoption of a mythic-traditional perspective. This historical review focuses on description of a key event: United Nations Resolution 3379 equating Zionism with racism. We argue that increasing adherence to Jewish tradition goes hand in hand with the assimilation of Jewish myths regarding anti-Semitism. Scholarly discourse about new anti-Semitism is presented through critical study of Shmuel Almog’s anthology Sin’at Yisrael ledoroteiha (A History of Hatred of Israel). This study is the first to be published that discusses an updated view of anti-Semitism in Israeli public discourse and academic research, emphasizing how the State of Israel has become its object.

 

 

New Article: Leifer, Toward a Post-Zionist Left

Leifer, Joshua. “Toward a Post-Zionist Left”. Dissent 62.4 (2015): 102-104.

 

URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dissent/v062/62.4.leifer.html/

 
Abstract

Liberal Zionists position themselves as a third way between the two poles of right-wing religious Zionism and left-wing anti-Zionism, and as the most vocal supporters of the two-state solution. However, in the years since Yitzhak Rabin’s murder, and especially since the collapse of the Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada, the two-state solution increasingly appears dead beyond resurrection. The numbers of settlers and settlements continue to grow; there are now more than half a million Jewish settlers living over the Green Line. The Israeli public is more right-wing than it has ever been, and so is its government.

 

 

 

New Book: Kaplan, Beyond Post-Zionism

Kaplan, Eran. Beyond Post-Zionism. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.

 

 

Post-Zionism emerged as an intellectual and cultural movement in the late 1980s when a growing number of people inside and outside academia felt that Zionism, as a political ideology, had outlived its usefulness. The post-Zionist critique attempted to expose the core tenets of Zionist ideology and the way this ideology was used, to justify a series of violent or unjust actions by the Zionist movement, making the ideology of Zionism obsolete. In Beyond Post-Zionism Eran Kaplan explores how this critique emerged from the important social and economic changes Israel had undergone in previous decades, primarily the transition from collectivism to individualism and from socialism to the free market. Kaplan looks critically at some of the key post-Zionist arguments (the orientalist and colonial nature of Zionism) and analyzes the impact of post-Zionist thought on various aspects (literary, cinematic) of Israeli culture. He also explores what might emerge, after the political and social turmoil of the last decade, as an alternative to post-Zionism and as a definition of Israeli and Zionist political thought in the twenty-first century.

Eran Kaplan is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Israel Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy and coeditor (with Derek J. Penslar) of The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948: A Documentary History.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Post-Zionism in History

2. Amos Oz and the Zionist Intellectual

3. East and West on the Israeli Screen

4. Herzl and the Zionist Utopia

5. The Legacies of Hebrew Labor

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

ToC: Israel Studies 20,1 (2015)

 

 

1. Special Section: Landscapes
   1. Zippori National Park as a Composite Narrative (pp. 1-30)

      Tal Alon-Mozes and Matanya Maya
   2. The Geopolitics of Interment: An Inquiry into the Burial of Muhammad Ali in Jerusalem, 1931 (pp. 31-56)

      Maoz Azaryahu and Yitzhak Reiter
   3. Greening the Curriculum: Current Trends in Environmental Education in Israel’s Public Schools (pp. 57-85)

      Gonen Sagy and Alon Tal
2. Articles
   1. The Need to be Part of Europe: Israel’s Struggle for an Association Agreement with the EEC, 1957–1961 (pp. 86-109)

      Gadi Heimann
   2. Crisis and Development: Menachem Begin’s Leadership Throughout the 1960s (pp. 110-133)

      Amir Goldstein
   3. Imperialism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Revisions in Matzpen’s Historical Perspective (pp. 134-158)

      Joshua Blass
   4. Pinchas Sadeh’s Religiosity (pp. 159-179)

      Gideon Katz
   5. Homogeneity vs. Heterogeneity in the Young Adult and Children’s Literature of Devorah Omer (pp. 180-194)

      Rima Shikhmanter
3. Notes on Contributors (pp. 195-197)
4. Guidelines for Contributors (pp. 198-200)

New Article: Zaritt, Yaakov Shabtai’s Anti-Nostalgia

Zaritt, Saul Noam. “Ruins of the Present: Yaakov Shabtai’s Anti-Nostalgia.” Prooftexts 33, no. 2 (2014): 251-73.

 

URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prooftexts/v033/33.2.zaritt.html

 

Abstract

Yaakov Shabtai’s novel Past Continuous is often considered one of the greatest achievements of Israeli fiction, earning Shabtai a prominent place in Hebrew literature and potential canonization as part of world literature. Often compared to the work of Marcel Proust, the novel, with its difficult style and sentence structure, is viewed as a work of complex reflective nostalgia, articulating a post-Zionist lament for a society that did not live up to its original ideological goals. Past Continuous has been read as a positive contribution to the wave of nostalgia that many argue characterizes Israeli culture of the late 1970s and 1980s, and the comparison to Proust allowed such a project also to appear universal to world audiences.

However, as compelling as this nostalgic reading is and as much as it reflects the novel’s reception history, it greatly simplifies the politics of memory that determine the very building blocks of Shabtai’s prose. The associative leaps and breathless rhythm of Shabtai’s writing do not merely lead the reader into a reconstructed past, but also compel the reader to never dwell there and, in anticipation of the next comma or period, to be pushed ever-forward into the present. This article argues that a reexamination of Shabtai’s prose style in Past Continuous can reveal a current in the text that is antipodal to a nostalgic reading. In opposition to an idealized return to a forgotten past, the novel also demonstrates how the past, with all its monumental and ineluctable traumas, constantly presses into the living present.

New Article: Rosmer, Israel’s Middle Eastern Jewish Intellectuals

Rosmer, Tilde. “Israel’s Middle Eastern Jewish Intellectuals: Identity and Discourse.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 41.1 (2014): 62-78.

 

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13530194.2014.878507

 

Abstract

The intellectual movement HaKeshet HaDemokratit HaMizrahit (The Eastern Democratic Rainbow) was established in 1996 by second and third generation Middle Eastern and North African Jewish immigrants who are faculty members, graduate students, actors, artists, educators, businessmen and women, and media workers. These self-identified Mizrahi Israeli intellectuals aimed to initiate new debates in Israeli society with their criticism of Zionist narrative and policies by applying post-colonial theory to expose the construction of social categorisation among Jewish Israelis. In their discursive contribution they addressed several issues of historical and contemporary inequality between groups of Israeli citizens. By examining the motivation behind this intellectual activism, the present article asks what the Mizrahi identity means to people labelled as Mizrahim and why it is important.

New Article: Cohen, Mizrahi Subalternity and the State of Israel

Cohen, Kfir. “Mizrahi Subalternity and the State of Israel. Towards a New Understanding of Mizrahi Literature.” Interventions 16.3 (2014): 380-404.

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369801X.2013.816075

Abstract

This essay proposes a new approach to Mizrahi literature by re-examining the socioconceptual relation between Mizrahi subalternity and the state of Israel. Examining the recent post-Zionist/postcolonial criticism, I argue that its literary categories and social analysis conceive of the Mizrahi only through the medium and form of the state and only in so far as its ‘culture’ procures it with an alternative content for Israeli Eurocentric nationalism. Such a ‘statist’ and national articulation of the Mizrahi, critical as it might be, confuses the conditions of Mizrahi cultural identity and legitimate speech whose site is civil society with the conditions of subalternity produced in the Israeli social formation as a whole, and thus ends up misconceiving the Mizrahi subaltern and its literary appearance. Since Mizrahi subalternity emerges in social and discursive fields that cannot be rendered in such a ‘statist’ language, it thus holds alternative knowledge and forms that both reveal the conceptual limits of the post-Zionist stance and allow for a new interpretive approach to Mizrahi literature. However, since canonical Mizrahi literature – as with most recent Mizrahi criticism – has always imagined the Mizrahi in statist terms, I argue that this alternative language and knowledge does not exist as such in Mizrahi literature, but only in a displaced form as its unconscious. To provide an example for such a new interpretation and approach, I offer a reading of Shimon Ballas’s The Transit Camp.

Cite: Lustick, Israel Needs a New Map

Lustick, Ian. “Israel Needs a New Map.” Middle East Policy 20.2 (2013): 25-37.

 

URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mepo.12017/abstract

 

Abstract

The predicament Israelis face can be summarized with a simple allegory.
Imagine a family car trip. I live in Philadelphia — let’s imagine a trip
in Pennsylvania. The family piles into the car, and heads out onto the
road. They’ve got a map of Pennsylvania. The map shows where to go and
where not to go for swimming, camping, hiking and so on. Here’s the
Delaware River gap, here are the Pocono mountains. Relying on that same
map, they cross the Susquehanna River. It is going north to south, just
the way it’s supposed to. All is well, all is understandable. But
imagine that the family continues driving and they end up in Montana or
Texas, but all they’ve got is that map of Pennsylvania. They keep
relying on it. But that map is not going to help them find their way,
it’s going to produce nothing but confusion, false certainty,
irritation, anger and frustration. The Rio Grande will be mistaken as
the Ohio, the Poconos will be enormously larger than they’re supposed to
be. Without a new map or at least the realization that the old map
cannot possibly provide guidance, the trip can only end in
disillusionment and disaster, to say nothing of bitter disputes within
the car over who misinterpreted the map and who is responsible for the
wrong turns.

ToC: Israel Studies Review 28,1 (2013)

This title was previously known as Israel Studies Forum.

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

• Editors’ Note pp. v-vi(2)

Forum

•  The Fragile Boundary between the Political and the Academic pp. 1-7(7)
  Author: Feldhay, Rivka

Articles

• Party Membership in Israel: An Overview pp. 8-32(25)
  Authors: Kenig, Ofer; Philippov, Michael; Rahat, Gideon
• Multiculturalism, Conversion, and the Future of Israel as a Modern State pp. 33-53(21)
  Author: Waxman, Chaim I.
• The Cultural Divide: Book Reading as a Signifier of Boundaries among Co-Cultures in Israeli Society pp. 54-77(24)
  Authors: Adoni, Hanna; Nossek, Hillel
• Public Silence and Latent Memories: Yitzhak Rabin and the Arab-Palestinian Citizens of Israel pp. 78-97(20)
  Author: Sorek, Tamir
• The Bourgeois Construction of the Rural: An Israeli Case pp. 98-119(22)
  Author: Shavit, Ze’ev
• The Hebrew Teachers as Creators of the Zionist Community in (the Land of) Israel pp. 120-141(22)
  Authors: Tadmor-Shimony, Tali; Raichel, Nirit

Review Essay

• Post-Post-Zionism: A Paradigm Shift in Israel Studies? pp. 142-155(14)
  Author: Kaplan, Eran

Book Reviews

• Book Reviews pp. 156-175(20)

ToC: Israel Affairs 18,3 (2012)

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Israel       Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 3, 01 Jul 2012 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online. This new issue contains the following articles: Original       Articles The       war against the Jews Efraim Karsh Pages: 319-343 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689514 The       international assault against Israel Michael Curtis Pages: 344-362 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689515 Attacking       Israel with genocidal intentions Nidra Poller Pages: 363-371 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689517 From       Durban to the Goldstone Report: the centrality of human rights NGOs in       the political dimension of the Arab–Israeli conflict Gerald M. Steinberg Pages: 372-388 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689518 De-legitimization       currents in Europe Manfred Gerstenfeld Pages: 389-402 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689519 A       bias thicker than faith: Christians who punt for their persecutors Steve Apfel Pages: 403-411 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689520 The       BDS message of anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and incitement to       discrimination Joel S. Fishman Pages: 412-425 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689521 Jews       at sea: reflections on Israel’s Jewish detractors and defamers Alvin H. Rosenfeld Pages: 426-437 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689522 Jewish       defamation of Israel: roots and branches Kenneth Levin Pages: 438-454 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689523 De-legitimization       of Israel in Palestinian Authority schoolbooks Arnon Groiss Pages: 455-484 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689524 Fighting       on the front lines: anti-Semitism at the University of California and       efforts to combat it Tammi Rossman-Benjamin Pages: 485-501 DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2012.689525

Reviews: Ram, Israeli Nationalism

Ram, Uri. Israeli Nationalism. Social Conflicts and the Politics of Knowledge. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. London: Routledge, 2010.

 

Reviews

 

• Miller, Ylana. “Review.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 44.2 (2012): 362-364.

Reviews: Pappé, Forgotten Palestinians

Pappé, Ilan. The Forgotten Palestinians. A History of the Palestinians in Israel. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.

Reviews

• Scharf, Miriam. “The Forgotten Palestinians: ‘Aliens’ in Their Own Country.” Socialist Worker Online. May 17, 2011.
• No author (?). “There May Be Trouble Ahead. How to Find a Fairer Solution.” The Economist, May 26, 2011.
• Nakhleh, Khalil. “Book Review.” Palestine Chronicle, 09/02/2011.
• Entessar, Nader. “Review.” Washington Independent Review of Books.
• Hill, Matt. “Strangers in Their Own Home.” Review31.
• Winstanley, Asa. “New Pappe Book Highlights Plight of Forgotten Palestinians.” Electronic Intifada. December 7, 2011.
• Hughes, Matthew. “Review.” Middle East Journal 66.1 (2012): 177-179.

Reviews: Gelber, Nation and History

Yoav Gelber. Nation and History: Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post-Zionism. London and Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.

 

 

Reviews

Ilan Fuchs, “Old v. New? On Historiography and Israeli History.” H-Net Reviews, January 2012.

Reviews: Yakira, Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust

Yakira, Elhanan. Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust. Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel. Trans. M. Swirsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

Reviews

 

Rodman, David. “Review.” Israel Affairs 17.4 (2011): 655-656

Cite: Masalha, A Critique of the New Historians

Masalha, Nur. “New History, Post-Zionism and Neo-Colonialism: A Critique of the Israeli ‘New Historians’.” Holy Land Studies 10 (2011): 1-53.

 

URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/hls.2011.0002

Abstract

Ever since the 1948 Palestinian Nakba a bitter controversy has raged over its causes and circumstances. While the Palestinian refugees have maintained that they were driven into flight, Israeli historians claimed that the refugees either left of their own accord, or were ordered to do so by their own leaders. This essay explores the emergence of an Israeli revisionist historiography in the late 1980s which challenged the official Zionist narrative of 1948. Today the ‘new historians’ are bitterly divided and at each other’s throats. The essay assesses the impact of the ‘new historians’ on history writing and power relations in Palestine-Israel, situating the phenomenon within the wider debates on knowledge and power. It locates ‘new history’ discourse within the multiple crises of Zionism and the recurring patterns of critical liberal Zionist writing. It further argues that, although the terms of the debate in Western academia have been altered under the impact of this development, both the ‘new history’ narrative and ‘Post-Zionism’ have remained marginal in Israel. Rather than developing a post-colonial discourse or decolonising methodologies, the ‘new historians’ have reflected contradictory currents within the Israeli settler colonial society. Also, ominously, their most influential author, Benny Morris, has reframed the ‘new history’ narrative within a neo-colonialist discourse and the ‘clash of civilisations’ thesis. Justifying old and neo-colonialist ideas on ‘transfer’ and ethnic cleansing, Morris (echoing calls by neo-Zionist Israeli politicians) threatens the Palestinians with another Nakba.

Cite: Likhovski, Post-Post-Zionist Historiography

Likhovski, Assaf. "Post-Post-Zionist Historiography." Israel Studies 15,2 (2010): 1-23.

 

URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/israel_studies/summary/v015/15.2.likhovski.html

Abstract:

In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of historians and sociologists revolutionized the study of Israeli history. These scholars, often called collectively the Post-Zionists, sought to undermine "the founding myths of Israel". The Post-Zionist paradigm has made important and lasting contributions to the understanding of Israeli history, but no historiographical trend is permanent. In the last decade, a new generation of scholars, sometimes called "the third wave in Israeli historiography", or "the Post-Post-Zionists", has produced works that differ in many respects from those of the previous generation. This generation studies new subjects, utilizes new types of sources and new writing styles, asks new questions about Israeli society, and its attitude to Zionism is often more empathic than that of the previous generation. The article analyzes some aspects of the new paradigm, which can be seen as a local, Israeli, manifestation of a more general approach—the new cultural history—that appeared outside Israel in the 1970s.

ToC: Israel Studies 15,2 (2010)

 Israel Studies Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2010

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Zionist Dialectics

Post-Post-Zionist Historiography

Assaf Likhovski

pp. 1-23

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• Israel — Historiography.

Palestine Under the Mandate

Teaching the Children to Play: The Establishment of the First Playgrounds in Palestine During the Mandate

Zipora Shehory-Rubin
Shifra Shvarts

pp. 24-48

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• Playgrounds — Palestine — History.
• Play — Palestine — History.
• Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.

Bedouin, Abdül Hamid II, British Land Settlement, and Zionism: The Baysan Valley and Sub-district 1831-1948

Ruth Kark
Seth J. Frantzman

pp. 49-79

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• Land settlement — Government policy — Israel — Bet Sheʼan — History.
• Bedouins — Israel — Bet Sheʼan — Government relations — History.
• Bedouins — Sedentarization — Israel — Bet Sheʼan — History.
• Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918.

Reception of the Developmental Approach in the Jewish Economic Discourse of Mandatory Palestine, 1934-1938

Arie Krampf

pp. 80-103

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• Palestine — Economic conditions — 20th century.
• Zionism — Economic aspects — Palestine — History — 20th century.

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Diverging Goals: The French and Israeli Pursuit of the Bomb, 1958-1962

Gadi Heiman

pp. 104-126

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• France — Foreign relations — Israel.
• Israel — Foreign relations — France.
• Nuclear weapons — Government policy — Israel.
• Nuclear weapons — Government policy — France.
• France — Foreign relations — 1958-1969.
• Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.

Pacifism and Anti-Militarism in the Period Surrounding the Birth of the State of Israel

Tamar Hermann

pp. 127-148

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• Pacifism — Israel — History — 20th century.
• Iḥud (Organization)
• Organization of War Resisters in Israel.
• Ḥofshi, Natan.
• Abilea, Yosef.

From Warfare to Withdrawal: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon

Yael S. Aronoff

pp. 149-172

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• Sharon, Ariel.
• Israel — Foreign relations.
• Israel-Arab War, 1967 — Occupied territories.

Mass Mobilization to Direct Engagement: American Jews’ Changing Relationship to Israel

Theodore Sasson

pp. 173-195

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• Jews — United States — Attitudes toward Israel — History.

Constructing Literate Israelis: A Critical Analysis of Adult Literacy Texts

Esther Schely-Newman

pp. 196-214

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New Publication: Yakira, Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust

Yakira, Elhanan. Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust. Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel. Trans. M. Swirsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the first time, as well as a post-scriptum written for the English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in the anti-Zionist campaigns. The first essay examines the French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals with a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zionists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different attempts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Arendt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in her general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Elhanan Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel.

URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521127868

Keywords: Zionism: Criticism, Post-Zionism, Holocaust, Holocaust: Denial, Holocaust: Eichmann Trial, Antisemitism, אלחנן יקירה

Reviews: Ram, The Globalization of Israel

Uri Ram. The Globalization of Israel. McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem.  New York: Routledge, 2007.

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Reviews: Eugene R. Sheppard, in Israel Studies 15,1 (2010): 183–187.