Zionism and antisemitism – the debate that won’t go away
JVL Introduction
Debate continues to rage in the US about antisemitism today, expressed in a spate of confrontations on US campuses (e.g. at Bard College recently) and in the printed word. It is a debate within the American Jewish communities and has clear resonances in Britain. Much of it is intimately linked to conceptions of Zionism whether we will it or not.
The debate has been going on for a long time as Hannah Gurman shows here in her wide-ranging discussion of Bari Weiss’s new book How to Fight Anti-Semitism, recently published by Crown in the US.
This discussion complements that previously published here, Judith Butler’s discussion in How (not) to fight antisemitism.
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Mon 4 Nov 2019. Read the original here.
The Centrism of Fools
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Reading this analysis raises the fundamental question of whether the term ‘antisemitism’ has now become so drained of serious meaning by the propagandists that it now has no useful function.
Connection with reality has to be re-established.