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Fashionable anti-semitism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: It in no way detracts from Rob Foot's proposition (April 2004), that the virulent anti-Americanism of a discredited Left may be a metaphor for anti-Semitism, to point out that in the letters page of the "liberal" Age, for instance, actual anti-Semitic views have been expounded as explanations for US policy. It is more than mere metaphor.
As the US and its allies threatened to intervene in Iraq in 2002, a Howard Hodgens (Age, March 12, 2002) singled out Jews in the Bush administration for special attention, while ignoring the pivotal role of non-Jews such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and President Bush himself.
Several readers recently wrote to protest against Age cartoonist Bruce Petty's (April 20) depiction of Israeli settler "suicide bombers", stating that the absurd reversal of reality played into the hands of those several letter-writers who had suggested that US foreign policy is hostage to the "Jewish vote". One of them, Mick Stone (April 21), felt the need to point out that Jews make up little more than 1 ...
- Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Rutter, Tom January 1, 2007 700+ words
...schematic analysis of anti-Semitism. Biberman argues that...that the presence of the Jew-Sissy within this matrix...by an ontological anti-Semitism: Jews needed to be removed from...Biberman relates Shylock's Jew-Sissy recourse to legal...
- The resurgence of anti-Semitism; Jews, Israel, and liberal opinion.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2007 700+ words
9780742552272 The resurgence of anti-Semitism; Jews, Israel, and liberal opinion. Harrison, Bernard. Rowman...Utah) attempts to define a clear boundary between anti-Semitism and legitimate criticism of the state of Israel, whether...
- `Anti-semitism,' Israel and the left: who's really behind the crude equation...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Green, Philip May 5, 2003 700+ words
...collective persona of "Jews" or "the Jew." For the anti...aspect of anti-Semitism has at times been...Semite every Jew is potentially...classical anti-Semitism, we also have...reference to a Jew or to Jews is by that token...
- Anti-Semitism rising, Jews in France ponder leaving.(WORLD)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 22, 2004 700+ words
...home to about 500,000 Jews, partly because it is...partly because most French Jews already have relatives...Meanwhile, rising anti- Semitism has fed "anxiety that...strongly against anti-Semitism in recent months, clearly...and violent assaults on Jews. Earlier this month...
- Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism.(Jews and Non-Jews)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Shofar March 22, 2004 700+ words
Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism, by Abraham H. Foxman. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. 305 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-06-054246-2. Antisemitism...
- Blame it on the Jews: anti-Semitism and the history of Jewish conspiracy...
- Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) Mole, Phil September 22, 2003 700+ words
...these legends implicated Jews in the attacks. The American...expressed hostility toward Jews. This hostility could...expressions of anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew who claimed that his mission...by small groups of both Jews and Gentiles who saw in...
- The multiple faces of anti-Semitism; Prejudice against Jews takes many forms...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 24, 2002 700+ words
...these came from, with Jews targeted with smears...reminiscent of the anti-Semitism flourishing before and...Prejudice toward the Jews is ancient stuff. Some...the chosen people" - Jews are singled out as objects...But the roots of anti-Semitism go deep and are nourished...
- Being a Jew is dangerous now; After two London synagogues are attacked, an...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) June 25, 2004 700+ words
...coverage - have made Jews everywhere apprehensive...from medieval anti-Semitism to present Jews as a single political...That's being a Jew: Heinz has 57 varieties...of Britain have no Jews at all. I constantly...who have never met a Jew. Such people can...
Source: HighBeam Research, Fashionable anti-semitism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)