From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism The Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology [Paperback]

Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that have inhabited or targeted the English-speaking world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Although in principle one can be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, authors document and trace the numerous parallels and continuities between the hoary tropes attached for centuries to the Jewish people and the more recent vilifications of the Jewish state. They evaluateand discreditmany of the central claims anti-Zionists have promoted in their relentless effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. They show how mainstream anti-racist communities, courses and texts have ignoredor deniedthe antisemitic hatred that pervades much of the Muslim world.Eunice G. Pollack(PhD, Columbia University) is a professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of North Texas. Recent publications includeRacializing Antisemitism: Black Militants, Jews, & Israel, 1950  Present;Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present(Ed.); and the prize-winning two-volumeEncyclopedia of American Jewish History(coed. with Stephen H. Norwood).Preface: From a Pariah People to a Pariah State

Eunice G. Pollack

Part I: DENYING ANTISEMITISM

1. How Raising the Issue of Antisemitism Puts You Outside the Community of the Progressive: The Livingstone Formulation

David Hirsh

2. The Great Failure of the Anti-Racist Community: The Neglect of Muslim Antisemitism in English-Language Courses, Textbooks, and Research

Neil J. Kressel

II. ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA BEFOREAND AFTERTHE FOUNDING OF THE JEWISH STATE: THE ELITES AND THE MASSES

3. Antisemitism in the White House

Rafael Medoff

4. Antisemitic Terror, Defeatism, and Anti-Zionism: Coughlinism and the Christian Front, 19341955

Stephen H. Norwood

5. Entertaininl“O