André Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, D. Porat, L. Schiffman
{"title":"General Introduction “An End to Antisemitism!”","authors":"André Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, D. Porat, L. Schiffman","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-003","url":null,"abstract":"Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124183784","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":"Recommendations regarding the Internet, its Influencers and its Users","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-029","url":null,"abstract":"Much of what has been said about cultural decision makers and influencers applies to the decision makers and influencers of the online world as well. In fact, online communication is part of the process of the construction of meaning that we have described above as culture.We address the Internet here separately and not among the recommendations to cultural decision makers and influencers in general because to a large extent the Internet is responsible for the explosion of Jew-hatred in the last decades. The Internet provides antisemites of all colors with a means to spread their agitation unhindered both in the form of explicit hate speech and in implicit manifestations coded in indirect speech acts. A recent long-term study by Monika Schwarz-Friesel exposes the Internet as “the primary multiplier and locus for the transmission of manifestations of antisemitism” and points to a more than alarming development: “Expressions of anti-Semitic sentiment have increased significantly in the digital age.”1 The main results of the long-term study are: – This increase is accompanied by a qualitative radicalization and intensification of expressions of antisemitism. – Consequently, antisemitism’s scope for expression as well as the visibility of antisemitic sentiments have grown enormously online. – The epoch-spanning reiteration of Judeophobic stereotypes and conspiracy phantasies is revealed in thousands of texts every day in the Internet. – Classical hostility towards Jews remains the primary conceptual basis for present-day hatred of Jews; 54.02 percent (mean value) of all expressions of antisemitism display classical stereotypes. – Muslim antisemitism is also marked by classical stereotypes of hostility towards Jews.","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133670134","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":"Leadership Talk by the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)","authors":"Sebastian G. Kurz","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121219397","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":"Equal Treatment, not just Religious Freedom: On the Methods of Slaughtering Animals for Human Consumption","authors":"Wolfgang Wieshaider","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-038","url":null,"abstract":"The way to overcome antisemitism is by elucidation; elucidation of—in order to illustrate this point immediately by an example—a Jewish custom which every now and then sparks off antisemitic sentiments: ש ח י ט ה , shechita, the Jewish traditional method of slaughtering animals for human consumption;1 Islamic tradition being related hereto.2 In the following considerations, this topic will be treated from a legal perspective not just because it is of a genuinely legal nature, but also because it regularly triggers various legal consequences, most recently the prohibitive regulations of Wallonia3 and Flanders,4 challenged before the Belgian Constitutional Court, which requested a preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).5","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114238614","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":"Recommendations regarding Cultural Organizations and Institutions","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-028","url":null,"abstract":"its physical destruction; former often leads attempting the global The cultural forgetting of Jew-hatred needs to be complemented with the embedding or reinforc-ing of positive images of Judaism in the cultural and religious memories of the world. All cultural organizations and institutions should work to expose humanity to the rich and fascinating uni-verse of Jewish culture in general, and Israeli culture in particular, as hatred cannot be sus-tained for that which is appreciated.","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124656745","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":"Redeeming Humanity from the Evil of the Jews: Islamist Rationalization of Antisemitism","authors":"Esther Webman","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-019","url":null,"abstract":"siveness, this will not forever be the case [ … ]. It can be said that, of all the peoples of the world, only the Jews lack any [common] features that make them into a people, except for their religion, and throughout history this has never been sufficient to make them into a kind of nation. They have always been, and still are, nothing but concentrations of greedy crooks. Even if wars will not defeat them today, history indicates that a million Hitlers from all over the world will [appear and] eliminate them and get rid of them forever.This will not be long in coming, because they are the problem of the whole world and not just the Arabs. ⁴ signals the recognition of the failure of that ideological alternative and represents an un-compromising determination by a new generation of Muslims to redesign Islamism and to bring Islam as a “ master signifier ” back to the center stage of politics, economics, society and culture.This twenty-first century Islamism, an amorphous entity splintered by objectiv-ity and subjective elements but united in methodology of unmitigated violence, was born out of the impotence of a Muslim leadership that abysmally failed to repair injustices and humiliation inflicted upon the umma by yesterday ’ s colonizers and today ’ s imperia-lists.²²","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129477857","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":"“Antisemitism 2.0”—The Spreading of Jew-hatred on the World Wide Web","authors":"M. Schwarz-Friesel","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-026","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the rising problem of internet antisemitism and online hatred against Israel. Antisemitism 2.0 is found on all web platforms, not just in right-wing social media but also on the online commentary sections of quality media and on everyday web pages. The internet shows Jew ‐ hatred in all its various contemporary forms, from overt death threats to more subtle manifestations articulated as indirect speech acts. The spreading of antisemitic texts and pictures on all accessible as well as seemingly non-radical platforms, their rapid and multiple distribution on the World Wide Web, a discourse domain less controlled than other media, is by now a common phenomenon within the space of public online communication. As a result, the increasing importance of Web 2.0 communication makes antisemitism generally more acceptable in mainstream discourse and leads to a normalization of anti-Jewish utterances. Empirical results from a longitudinal corpus study are presented and dis-cussed in this article. They show how centuries old anti-Jewish stereotypes are persistently reproduced across different social strata. The data confirm that hate speech against Jews on online platforms follows the pattern of classical antisemitism. Although many of them are camouflaged as “ criticism of Israel, ” they are rooted in the ancient and medieval stereotypes and mental models of Jew hostility. Thus, the “ Israelization of antisemitism, ” ¹ the most dominant manifestation of Judeophobia today, proves to be merely a new garb for the age-old Jew hatred. However, the easy accessibility and the omnipresence of antisemitism on the web 2.0 enhances and intensifies the spreading of Jew-hatred, and its prop-agation on social media leads to a normalization of antisemitic communication, thinking, and feeling.","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132237570","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":"Jews and Judaism between Bedevilment and Source of Salvation: Christianity as a Cause of and a Cure against Antisemitism","authors":"A. Lange, M. Grossman","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-018","url":null,"abstract":"We begin our talk today with a set of images that are both appalling to modern eyes and strangely consistent with one another: they present Jews and Judaism as intimately linked with the devil, as demonic in their fundamental nature and their individual and collective intentions. While such accusations sound medieval at best, they are widespread even in the present day: as recently as June, 2016, Mahmoud Abbas repeated the accusation that Jews poison wells in a speech to the European parliament.","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122254794","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":"Leadership Talk by the Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights","authors":"I. Cotler","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-011","url":null,"abstract":"The fight against antisemitism is part of a larger common cause that brings us together — the struggle against racism, against hate, against antisemitism, against mass atrocity, and against the crime whose name we should even shud-der to mention, namely genocide. And mostly, and here I reference my mentor and teacher Elie Wiesel, against indifference and inaction in the face of injustice and antisemitism; and all this is part of the larger struggle for justice, for peace, and human rights in our time.¹","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124306157","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":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110618594-043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618594-043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":418945,"journal":{"name":"Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism","volume":"423 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132613874","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}