Mapping the New Left Antisemitism

Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.

Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.The rise of a new and largely left-wing form of antisemitism in the era of the Jewish state and the distinction between it and legitimate criticism of Israel are now roiling progressive politics in the West and causing alarming spikes in antisemitic incitement and incidents. Fathom journal has examined these questions relentlessly in the first decade of its existence, earning a reputation for careful textual analysis and cogent advocacy. In this book, the Fathom essays are contextualised by three new contributions: Lesley Klaff provides a map of contemporary antisemitic forms of antizionism, Dave Rich writes on the oft-neglected lived experience of the Jewish victims of contemporary antisemitism and David Hirsh assesses the intellectual history of the left from which both Fathom and his own London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, as well as this book series, have emerged. Topics covered by the contributors include antisemitic antizionism and its underappreciated Soviet roots; the impact of analogies with the Nazis; the rise of antisemitism on the European continent, exploring the hybrid forms emerging from a cross-fertilisation between new left, Christian and Islamist antisemitism; the impact of antizionist activism on higher education; and the bitter debates over the adoption of the oft-misrepresented International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.This work will be of considerable appeal to scholars and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies and the politics of Israel.

Autorentext

Alan Johnson is the founder and editor of Fathom journal. A professor of democratic theory and practice, he has served on the editorial boards of Socialist Organiser, Historical Materialism and the US socialist journals New Politics and Dissent. His writings on the left, and on antisemitism, include 'Aurum de Stercore: anti-totalitarianism in the thought of Primo Levi', in Thinking Towards Humanity. Themes From Norman Geras, edited by Stephen De Wijze and Eve Garrard (2012), and the report Institutionally Antisemitic: Contemporary Left Antisemitism and the Crisis in the British Labour Party (2019).

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction and Contexts 1. Introduction to Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays 2. A New Form of the Oldest Hatred: Mapping Antisemitism Today 3. The Jewish Experience of Antisemitism 4. The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink Part 2: Contemporary Left Antisemitism 5. What is Left Antisemitism? 6. Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism 7. Alibi Antisemitism 8. Like a Cloud Contains a Storm: Jean Améry's Critique of Anti-Zionism 9. What Corbyn's favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry get wrong about contemporary antisemitism 10. Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir 11. Denial: Norman Finkelstein and the New Antisemitism 12. 'Toxic Gifts': Israel and the Anti-Zionist Left. An interview with Susie Linfield Part 3: The Soviet Roots of Contemporary Left Antisemitism 13. Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism 14. Communists Against Jews: The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland in 1968 15. The German Left's Undeclared Wars on Israel. An Interview with Jeffrey Herf Part 4: Left Antisemitism and the Holocaust 16. Holocaust Inversion and Contemporary Antisemitism 17. Hitler and the Nazis' Anti-Zionism 18. Holocaust Falsifiers: Blaming 'Zionists' for the Crimes of the Nazis Part 5: Left Antisemitism in Europe and the United States 19. Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe 20. The unwelcome arrival of the quenelle 21. A Modern Orthodox-Christian Ritual Murder Libel: St. Philoumenos of Jacob's Well 22. We Shall Be as a City on a Hill: Trump, 'Progressive' Antisemitism, and the Loss of American Jewish Exceptionalism Part 6: Left Antisemitism and Academia 23. The Meaning of David Miller 24. From Scholarship to Polemic? A case study of the emerging crisis in academic publishing on Israel 25. Pathologising 'Jewish Being and Thinking': Oren Ben-Dor and Academic Antisemitism Part 7: The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 26. On Misrepresentations of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism 27. Political Antisemitism: A Defence of the IHRA Definition Part 8: Theory and Left Antisemitism 28. Misreading Hannah Arendt: Judith Butler's Anti-Zionism and the Eichmann Trial 29. The Pleasures of Antisemitism 30. Intersectionality and Antisemitism: A New Approach 31. Left Alternatives to Left Antisemitism: a conversation between Alan Johnson and Philip Spencer