{"title":"In Defense of the IHRA Definition (Despite Its Defects as a Definition)","authors":"B. Harrison","doi":"10.26613/jca.5.2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca.5.2.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131442660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confronting Antisemitism on the Left—Arguments for Socialists","authors":"Derek Spitz","doi":"10.26613/jca.5.2.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca.5.2.122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131168754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Users of British Media Websites Make a Bogeyman of George Soros","authors":"M. Becker, Hagen Troschke","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.100","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article we present the results of a qualitative content analysis of online reader comments in British traditional mainstream media. Our aim was to determine the extent to which users respond with antisemitic attributions in the comments under newspaper articles that discuss George Soros. To this end, we selected three events in the year 2020 where reporting on Soros in The Guardian, The Independent, and the Daily Mail triggered discussion. For these events, we examined comments sections on the news websites and the media’s Facebook profiles for antisemitic attributions. With the linguistic form of the attributions as our focus, we used a pragmalinguistic toolbox to analyse implicit, contextual language use. The comments included classic stereotypes, conspiracy theories, victimperpetrator reversal and death wishes. The results reveal the relevance of using an investigative design capable of capturing implicit language use in the analysis of hate speech.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131206032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surging, Stable, or Subdued: The Jewish Perception of Antisemitism in Canada’s Southernmost Region","authors":"John Cappucci","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the Jewish perception of antisemitism in Windsor-Essex by surveying forty-nine Jews living in the area. Those surveyed were asked about their level of concern with the state of antisemitism, possible causes, and how Windsor-Essex compares to other Canadian regions. The researcher found that respondents are moderately concerned with the state of antisemitism. They also identified several dissimilar causes for antisemitism. A majority believe there are similar levels of antisemitism found across Canada. The researcher hypothesizes that demographic factors will impact the respondents’ perception of antisemitism. After a comparative analysis, the researcher finds that there is no such discernable relationship. The researcher believes that future studies need to incorporate factors that go beyond the basic ones to better understand how antisemitism is perceived by Jewish Canadian communities.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130655822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Durban Antizionism: Its Sources, Its Impact, and Its Relation to Older Anti-Jewish Ideologies","authors":"D. Hirsh, H. Miller","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.98","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The antizionism that dominated the 2001 UN “World Conference against Racism” was neither a completely “new antisemitism” nor was it simply the latest manifestation of an ahistorical and eternal phenomenon. During the peace process in the late 80s and 90s, the intensifying focus on Israel as a key symbol of all that was bad in the world had been in remission, but at Durban, the 1970s “Zionism=Racism” culture returned. Many participants internalized and embraced the reconfigured antizionism. Others failed to speak out, even when they witnessed the recognizable older antisemitic tropes with which it came intertwined. The proposal to agree that Zionism was the key symbolic form of racism in the world after the fall of apartheid offered unity across different movements and milieus: post-colonialism, human rights and humanitarian law; the women’s movement, anti-racism, much of the global left and NGOs; even oppressive governments if they positioned themselves as antiimperialist or “Islamic.” Activists, diplomats, and UN personnel at Durban were not passively infected by this antizionist ideology, they chose actively to embrace it or to tolerate it. Based on elements of truth, exaggeration, and invention, and made plausible by half-visible fragments of older antisemitisms, Durban antizionism was attractive because it offered an emotionally potent way of imagining and communicating all that “good people” oppose and that they have difficulty facing rationally. It portrayed racism, and in the end oppression itself, with an Israeli face. Delegates brought this worldview home to where they lived and to the spheres in which they operated intellectually and politically. They worked to make Durban antizionism into the radical common sense of the twenty-first century. There were people at the conference and in anti-hegemonic spaces around the world who understood the dangers of a unity built around opposition to a universal Jewish threat, but they found themselves on the defensive against a self-confident, formidable, and ostensibly coherent ideology or worldview.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130217462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonization Blueprints: Soviet Conspiracist Antizionism in Contemporary Left-Wing Discourse","authors":"Izabella Tabarovsky","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.97","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Contemporary left-wing antizionist discourse reproduces with stunning fidelity some of the central tropes of Soviet antizionist propaganda, which demonized Israel and Zionism. The article explores the background of these tropes, looks at the biographies of the rightwing Soviet ideologues who developed them, and examines the mechanisms through which they reached the West. The article concludes that these tropes are inextricably linked to antisemitic conspiracy theory, containing seeds of anti-Jewish violence that we ignore at our own peril.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125189350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Do People Discriminate against Jews?","authors":"M. Bolton","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131342189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theme Editorial","authors":"Lesley D. Klaff","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.96","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123984046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gab as Disseminator of Antisemitic Conspiracy Myths and Enabler of Offline Violence","authors":"Marc-Philip Hermann-Cohen","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While there are increasing moves by mainstream social media platforms to control far-right activity as well as the prevalence of hate speech such as antisemitism, such regulation has in turn fueled the rise of platforms dedicated to being “bastions” of free speech where regardless of its content, discourse seems completely uncontrolled-one such platform is Gab. This paper seeks to chart the rise of Gab as a location for unrestrained antisemitic conspiracy myths and to demonstrate that there is a spillover of such online discourse into real-world criminal action. In order to do so, the paper’s aims are fourfold: to overview current research on online antisemitism and the role of Gab in it; it will look at cases where online hate was taken offline; it will examine what makes the role of Gab unique in this regard and how conspiracy theories find an open house there; and it will examine the Gab Dissenter, a browser extension that facilitates the circumvention of normal moderation. Ultimately, the paper strives to answer whether Gab serves as an enabler for offline antisemitic violence by allowing and even inviting conspiracy theories on its platform.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129028550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}