Maybe, When It Comes to anti-Semitism, No ‘Different Germany’ Exists?

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A biting critique of recent developments in Gemany by Prof Daniel Blatman, a Holocaust era historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and chief historian of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.

He attacks vigorously the way in which antisemitism traditionally “characterized by a multifaceted hostility to Jews and Judaism, the demonization of Jews, a preoccupation with their collective traits and their business dealings, and myths and stereotypes that painted the Jew as the devil incarnate” has been transmogrified into the instrumentalised new antisemitism of today, what Blatman calls “functional antisemitism”.

This article was originally published by Ha'aretz on Wed 3 Jul 2019. Read the original here.