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Emma Poulton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tackling Antisemitism within english football a critical analysis of policies and campaigns using a multiple streams approach
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2020Co-Authors: Emma PoultonAbstract:While the anti-racist movement in English football has been established for 25 years, Antisemitism was not specifically addressed until much later – most publicly through anti-discrimination organi...
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towards understanding Antisemitism and the contested uses and meanings of yid in english football
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Emma PoultonAbstract:This article addresses an omission in the currently brief body of work on Antisemitism in football and contributes to and advances wider sociological debates in the sub-disciplines of race and ethnicity, religion, linguistics and sport. The article examines antisemitic discourse in English football and in doing so, explains the different uses and meanings of ‘Yid’ in the vernacular culture of fans. While many conceive of ‘Yid’ as an ethnic epithet, fans of Tottenham Hotspur – Gentiles and Jews – have appropriated and embraced the term, using it to deflect the antisemitic abuse they are targeted with due to their ‘Jewish identity’. The study maps the contested uses of ‘Yid’ on a continuum to explain and demarcate between the nuanced forms of Antisemitism in football. It makes central the cultural context in which ‘Yid’ is used, together with the intent underpinning its use, since epithets and slurs are not simply determined by their lexical form.
Cristiana Facchini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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L'ostilita' antiebraica nel mondo cattolico: un percorso storiografico e politico
2020Co-Authors: Cristiana FacchiniAbstract:This article aims to describe the relationship between Jews and Catholics against the backdrop of the rise of the national state and the process of political emancipation in the long nineteenth century. In doing so, it attempts to place the overlooked Italian context in the background of both national and transnational history, focusing on themes that would become relevant and reiterated until the rise of Fascism and Nazism. It argues that modern Antisemitism was embedded in a web of discourses and representations that were deeply ingrained in Christian cultures, even when a secularizing society emerged. Catholic Antisemitism, therefore, both exploited and rearranged old theological tropes with a new modern language capable to adjust to economic and political changes
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L'ostilita' antiebraica nel mondo cattolico: un percorso storiografico e politico
2020Co-Authors: Cristiana FacchiniAbstract:This article aims to describe the relationship between Jews and Catholics against the backdrop of the rise of the national state and the process of political emancipation in the long nineteenth century. In doing so, it attempts to place the overlooked Italian context in the background of both national and transnational history, focusing on themes that would become relevant and reiterated until the rise of Fascism and Nazism. It argues that modern Antisemitism was embedded in a web of discourses and representations that were deeply ingrained in Christian cultures, even when a secularizing society emerged. Catholic Antisemitism, therefore, both exploited and rearranged old theological tropes with a new modern language capable to adjust to economic and political changes
Lars Rensmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the politics of unreason the frankfurt school and the origins of modern Antisemitism
2017Co-Authors: Lars RensmannAbstract:Although the Frankfurt School—most prominently associated with Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse—represents one of the most influential intellectual traditions of the 20th century, its multi-faceted work on modern Antisemitism has so far largely been neglected. The Politics of Unreason fills this gap. The book provides the first systematic study of the Frankfurt School’s social, psychological and political research and theorizing on the problem of Antisemitism. Situating Critical Theorists’ work in its rich philosophical and sociological contexts, the book closely examines their various contributions on the subject—from major ground-breaking studies and prominent essays to seemingly marginal pieces and aphorisms. The study thoroughly reconstructs how the Frankfurt School, faced with the catastrophe of the genocide against the European Jews, explains modern forms and causes of Antisemitism and the politics of hate. Critical Theory’s analysis, however, is not limited to Nazism’s genocidal judeophobia. Consequently, the book also pays special attention to the Frankfurt School’s research on coded and “secondary” Antisemitism after the Holocaust, and how resentments are politically mobilized under conditions of democracy. By revisiting and rereading the Frankfurt School’s original work, The Politics of Unreason challenges several common misperceptions about Critical Theory’s philosophy and social research. In so doing, the book changes both our understanding of the Frankfurt School, and it changes our understanding of Antisemitism through the Frankfurt School. It is argued that Critical Theory provides an important resource to better understand the origins, scope and politics of modern Antisemitism, racism, and hate speech in the modern world—and in our time.
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guilt resentment and post holocaust democracy the frankfurt school s analysis of secondary Antisemitism in the group experiment and beyond
Antisemitism Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Lars RensmannAbstract:Previous discussions of the Frankfurt School’s work on Judeophobia have almost entirely neglected the Critical Theorists’ pathbreaking analysis of “secondary Antisemitism” after Auschwitz. This new form of Jew-hatred originates in the political and psychological desire to split off, repress, and downplay the memory of the Holocaust because such memory, with which Jews are often identified, evokes unwelcome guilt feelings. As Holocaust memory undermines the uncritical identification with a collective, family, or nation tainted by anti-Jewish mass atrocities, the repression of national guilt may unconsciously motivate the reproduction of resentments that helped cause the Shoah. In this light, the article re-examines the empirical postwar German study Group Experiment and other works of the Frankfurt School. Three specific defensive mechanisms in relation to historical collective guilt feelings are identified that engender a variety of antisemitic projections—from “Jewish power” to “Jewish money” and other anti-Jewish tropes—after the Holocaust. It is argued that these insights into post-Holocaust secondary Antisemitism, empirically analyzed in the German context, can partly be transferred to other contexts in European democracies and beyond. This article demonstrates that an unprocessed history of national guilt can have a negative impact on democracy and the resilience of Antisemitism.
Rusi Jaspal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran: The Effects of Identity, Threat, and Political Trust
Contemporary Jewry, 2015Co-Authors: Rusi JaspalAbstract:Antisemitism and anti-Zionism constitute two important ideological building blocks of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This article is the first to present quantitative empirical survey data elucidating attitudes towards Jews and Israel among an opportunity sample of Iranians. This study examines the correlates of Antisemitism and anti-Zionism in Iran with particular attention to the effects of identity, threat, and political trust. Consistent with emerging research into Antisemitism and anti-Zionism, there was a positive association between both forms of prejudice, suggesting social psychological overlap between the constructs. Given the pervasiveness of antisemitic and anti-Zionist representations in Iran, there were no significant differences in levels of anti-Zionism or Antisemitism on the basis of gender and educational orientations. Political conservatives did manifest greater Antisemitism and anti-Zionism than political reformists, although both groups scored high on these scales. There was a significant interaction effect of Iranian national identity and political trust on anti-Zionism, and a significant interaction effect of Muslim religious identity and political trust on Antisemitism. Political trust was by far the most powerful predictor of both forms of prejudice, followed by the perception of identity threat. These observations are considered through the lenses of Social Identity Theory and Identity Process Theory from social psychology.
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Antisemitism and anti zionism representation cognition and everyday talk
2014Co-Authors: Rusi JaspalAbstract:Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are complex, delineable, yet inter-related social-psychological phenomena. While Antisemitism has been described as an irrational, age-old prejudice, anti-Zionism is often represented as a legitimate response to a ’rogue state’. Drawing upon media and visual sources and rich interview data from Iran, Britain and Israel, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition and Everyday Talk examines the concepts of Antisemitism and anti-Zionism, tracing their evolution and inter-relations, and considering the distinct ways in which they are manifested, and responded to, by Muslim and Jewish communities in Iran, Britain and Israel. Providing insights from social psychology, sociology and history, this interdisciplinary analysis sheds light on the pivotal role of the media, social representations and identity processes in shaping Antisemitism and anti-Zionism. As such, this provocative book will be of interest to social scientists working on Antisemitism, race and ethnicity, political sociology and political science, media studies and Middle Eastern politics.
David Hirsh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the azas antizionist Antisemitism scale measuring Antisemitism as expressed in relation to israel and its supporters
Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, 2019Co-Authors: Daniel Allington, David HirshAbstract:This paper reports on the development and testing of the AzAs (Antizionist Antisemitism) scale: a six-item questionnaire instrument for measuring antisemitic attitudes as articulated in the language of hostility to Israel and its supporters. It is important to be able to recognize and measure this kind of Antisemitism because it is often embedded within ostensibly democratic discourse. The identification of this Antisemitism is frequently contested even by those who are in broad agreement on the recognition of older forms of Antisemitism. The scale contains a balance of protrait and contrait items, and achieved a satisfactory level of internal consistency when piloted on a sample of US-based respondents recruited through the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing market ( N = 122). There appears to be no relationship between scores on the scale and the subjective political position of respondents (as measured on a left-right self-report scale). We suggest that the AzAs scale will be of general use in measuring antizionist Antisemitism because (a) it collects several familiar and demonstrably antisemitic ideas expressed in relation to Israel and its supporters and (b) it exhibits good psychometric properties. Keywords: Antisemitism, Antizionism, Attitudes, Israel, Questionnaire instrument
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contemporary left Antisemitism
2017Co-Authors: David HirshAbstract:Today’s Antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of Antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars and journals of radical intellectuals. It analyses how criticism of Israel can mushroom into Antisemitism and it looks at struggles over how Antisemitism is defined. It focuses on ways in which those who raise the issue of Antisemitism are often accused of doing so in bad faith in an attempt to silence or smear. Hostility to Israel has become a signifier of identity, connected to opposition to imperialism, neo-liberalism and global capitalism; the ‘community of the good’ takes on toxic ways of imagining most living Jewish people. Weaving together theoretical discussion with case study narrative in an engaging and interesting way, this book is a global study which is essential reading for scholars working in sociology, politics, Middle East studies, Israel studies, Jewish studies, philosophy, anthropology, journalism and history, as well as anyone interested in current affairs and politics.
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accusations of malicious intent in debates about the palestine israel conflict and about Antisemitismthe livingstone formulation playing the Antisemitism card and contesting the boundaries of antiracist discourse
Transversal, 2010Co-Authors: David HirshAbstract:This paper is concerned with a rhetorical formulation which is sometimes deployed in response to an accusation of Antisemitism, particularly when it relates to discourse which is of the form of criticism of Israel. This formulation is a defensive response which deploys a counter-accusation that the person raising the issue of Antisemitism is doing so in bad faith and dishonestly. I have called it The Livingstone Formulation (Hirsh 2007, 2008).
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anti zionism and Antisemitism cosmopolitan reflections
2007Co-Authors: David HirshAbstract:This paper aims to disentangle the difficult relationship between anti-Zionism and Antisemitism. On one side, Antisemitism appears as a pressing contemporary problem, intimately connected to an intensification of hostility to Israel. Opposing accounts downplay the fact of Antisemitism and tend to treat the charge as an instrumental attempt to de-legitimize criticism of Israel. I address the central relationship both conceptually and through a number of empirical case studies which lie in the disputed territory between criticism and demonization. The paper focuses on current debates in the British public sphere and in particular on the campaign to boycott Israeli academia. Sociologically the paper seeks to develop a cosmopolitan framework to confront the methodological nationalism of both Zionism and anti-Zionism. It does not assume that exaggerated hostility to Israel is caused by underlying Antisemitism but it explores the possibility that Antisemitism may be an effect even of some antiracist forms of anti-Zionism.
