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ID:
177569
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Contemporary Jewry is burdened by a fierce debate about Zionism and Israel. A sizeable sector of Jewish academics, where leftists and self-declared liberals are strongly represented, criticises the Jewish state to the point of casting doubts regarding its very existence. Although their argumentation is frequently similar to the utterances of non-Jewish antisemites, what moves these Jewish Israel-critics is not so much Jews and Judaism but rather the Zionist idea. Such anti-Israel Jews are influenced by modern ideological trends and pressures that affect also, strangely enough, certain Israeli Jewish intellectuals. These developments happen on the background of an increasing pattern of Jew-hatred in non-Jewish society, a transformation of past antisemitism now expressed as anti-Israelism.
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ID:
190049
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A new wave of antisemitism has lately emerged, mostly directed against the Jewish state of Israel. It justifies itself with a new formulation that obfuscates Jew-hatred and its main bearers are Western left-oriented academics. A worrying fact is the large number of Jewish intellectuals, among them Israelis, who support such positions. This reflects the deepening ideological differences in present-day Jewry with regard to the Jewish state and its characteristics, an issue that is insufficiently addressed.
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ID:
189414
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The social and cultural integration of the Jews into Western society was a central paradigm of modern Jewry. Presently, ideological changes in sectors of ‘progressive’ Western society regarding the Jewish state and the Jews, as well as political and cultural tendencies in Israel, are unsettling the parameters of that paradigm, bringing up new tensions between non-Jews and Jews and changing Jewish profiles. Such multifaceted developments should be understood in the framework of the broader tendencies in Jewish history.
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ID:
107907
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2011.
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The contention of the present essay is that many Jews who oppose the existence of the state of Israel express a problematic form of Jewish identity, which may reach the point of a new pattern of Judeophobia - certainly, a puzzling intellectual phenomenon. Excluded from this category are Jews who criticize certain Israeli policies; this is the accepted democratic and liberal norm. Meant are Jews who either demand structural changes that deny the Jewish character of Israel, or even support the so-called 'abolishment' of the Jewish state. Even if their number is small, the visibility and influence of such Jews are quite large. Although most of them indignantly reject the allegation of Judeophobic attitudes, they frequently find themselves on a common platform (at times literally so) with declared and active non-Jewish Jew-haters, who are never shy to use their Jewish companions for their own argumentation.
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