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In reply to the discussion: Jerry Nadler condemns 'vile' cartoon shared by Rashida Tlaib along with Trump's 'disloyal' Jews jibe [View all]Mosby
(16,297 posts)54. Demonizing the one Jewish country in the world is Antisemitic.
It's a new iteration of Antisemitism that relies on classic tropes but uses Israel and Zionism as the milieu.
The concept of a new antisemitism directs our attention to some of the ways in which some people talk about Israel, Israelis and Zionism, suggesting that these ways have left the terrain of criticism of Israeli policy and become something much darker.[ii] The concept is concerned to distinguish between legitimate criticism of that policy (most obviously, of the occupation of the territories, the settlement project, the treatment of minorities in Israel, and the degree of force Israel uses to restore deterrence against Hamas) and an essentialising, demonising and dehumanising discourse which bends the meaning of Israel and Zionism (and most Jews) out of shape until they are fit receptacles for the tropes, images and ideas of classical antisemitism.
The concept alerts us to antisemitisms tendency to shape-shift through history. And to the possibility that since the creation of a Jewish state, in some quarters, what the demonized and essentialised Jew once was, demonised and essentialised Israel now is: malevolent in its very nature, all-controlling, full of blood lust, and the obstacle to a better, purer, and more spiritual world.
The new antisemitism, which might also be called antisemitic anti-Zionism, has three components: a political programme to abolish the Jewish homeland, a discourse to demonise it, and a movement to make it a global pariah state. The old antisemitism which has not gone away, but co-mingles with the new form believed the Jew is our Misfortune. The new antisemitism proclaims the Zionist is our misfortune. The old antisemitism wanted to make the world Judenrein, free of Jews. The new antisemitism wants to make the world Judenstaatrein, free of the Jewish state which all but a sliver of world Jewry either lives in or treats as a vitally important part of their identity.
We have no right to be disbelieving of this development. After all, antisemitism has never really been about the Jews, but about the need of some non-Jews to scapegoat Jews. As those needs have changed throughout history, the physiognomy of antisemitism has also changed.
The concept alerts us to antisemitisms tendency to shape-shift through history. And to the possibility that since the creation of a Jewish state, in some quarters, what the demonized and essentialised Jew once was, demonised and essentialised Israel now is: malevolent in its very nature, all-controlling, full of blood lust, and the obstacle to a better, purer, and more spiritual world.
The new antisemitism, which might also be called antisemitic anti-Zionism, has three components: a political programme to abolish the Jewish homeland, a discourse to demonise it, and a movement to make it a global pariah state. The old antisemitism which has not gone away, but co-mingles with the new form believed the Jew is our Misfortune. The new antisemitism proclaims the Zionist is our misfortune. The old antisemitism wanted to make the world Judenrein, free of Jews. The new antisemitism wants to make the world Judenstaatrein, free of the Jewish state which all but a sliver of world Jewry either lives in or treats as a vitally important part of their identity.
We have no right to be disbelieving of this development. After all, antisemitism has never really been about the Jews, but about the need of some non-Jews to scapegoat Jews. As those needs have changed throughout history, the physiognomy of antisemitism has also changed.
http://fathomjournal.org/denial-norman-finkelstein-and-the-new-antisemitism/
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Jerry Nadler condemns 'vile' cartoon shared by Rashida Tlaib along with Trump's 'disloyal' Jews jibe [View all]
brooklynite
Aug 2019
OP
The arms in blue sleeves with the star of david in the middle is portraying the Israeli flag.
Mosby
Aug 2019
#22
It was Israel that they were banned from visiting, after Trump suggested it
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2019
#35
So is the issue the use of the Star of David? I'm pretty sure I've seen Christian crosses
pnwmom
Aug 2019
#3
Chrisitan crosses have never been used to incite mobs to murder Christians
question everything
Aug 2019
#26
Christian crosses have been burned and used to incite mobs to murder AfAms who were Christian.
LanternWaste
Aug 2019
#84
It's vile to conservative snowflakes who can't stand it if someone doesn't kiss Trump's ass 100%.
Initech
Aug 2019
#10
Exactly. The Star of David implies Jews were trying to silence them, which is dishonest at best
still_one
Aug 2019
#41
Yes, American Jews, whom Israeli Jews wish would not meddle in their affairs. Israel has banned
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#42
Finkelstein is a holocaust denier. I don't care if he is Jewish, Kapo's we're Jews also
still_one
Aug 2019
#43
Well, news to me. Both parents were in concentration camps. If that is true, then certainly
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#44
THis has nothing to do with his parents. He maintains that Jews only use the holocaust as a money
still_one
Aug 2019
#45
No. He has been defamed as a holocaust denier because he has accused Israel of exploiting
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#46
He does in a devious way by minimizing it. I am not going to debate this discussion with you
still_one
Aug 2019
#47
Take your marbles and go home. You absolutely can not show that Finkelstein denies the holocaust.
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#48
Netanyahu is Jewish and the leader of Israel. Not all Jews were trying to ban them,
pnwmom
Aug 2019
#52
So. What does Netanyahu being Jewish have to do with his attrocious policies?
still_one
Aug 2019
#55
The Israeli flag implies ISRAEL is trying to silence them, which is exactly what happened.
FreeLookMode
Aug 2019
#82
The Star of David is saying Jews, Trump, and Netenyahu are trying to silence them. American Jews
still_one
Aug 2019
#39
Using of the Star of David isn't just political, i.e. Israel as a nation today. It's use in Nazi
24601
Aug 2019
#74
Netanyahu banned them, and then told one she could only come if she didn't speak.
pnwmom
Aug 2019
#16
Do you really think this is worth igniting another intraparty public feud?
BeyondGeography
Aug 2019
#19
What is the offensive imagery? Picturing Netanyahu in a cartoon? I'm sure I've seen crosses
pnwmom
Aug 2019
#50
Latuff is a well-known judeophob, and it's simply not believable Tlaib isn't aware of that. If she..
Marengo
Aug 2019
#30
Tlaib had the high ground after what happened with the trip to Israel. She should have kept it.
Chemisse
Aug 2019
#58
A cartoon that spells out the flag of Israel is a perfect and apt criticism of Israeli government
FreeLookMode
Aug 2019
#83