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Gabriel Schoenfeld
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This is the story of how, "virtually unnoticed, and unremarked, a lethal hatred of Jews has once again come to play a large part in world events." Schoenfeld offers a pungent, well-written, argumentative analysis, drawing upon essays he wrote for Commentary (where he is a senior editor) and other right-leaning publications. Schoenfeld divides his methodical analysis into three geopolitical spheres-the Islamic world, with an increase of "a particularly virulent brand of anti-Semitic hatred"; Europe, with the resurgence of a physically violent anti-Semitism; and the U.S., where for the first time anti-Semitism may be finding strong roots "in... the left-wing radicalism that came to the fore in the late 1960s and 1970s." Schoenfeld carefully, if selectively, makes a disturbing, and at times convincing, argument that the past two decades have seen a volatile conflation of generalized anti-Semitic fury with critiques of Israeli policy. Schoenfeld's conservative leanings are evident-he mounts a strong defense of Bush's Iraq policy as a sound counter to Islamic anti-Semitism-and some readers may find some of his arguments flimsy or debatable. In particular, his dismissal of Jewish progressives-such as Rabbi Michael Lerner, Susannah Heschel and Marc Ellisas "a coterie of preening left-wing Jews" who play a "sordid role" in tacitly promoting anti-Semitism with their criticisms of Israeli social and political policy-will rankle his critics. Schoenfeld's book is part of a wave of new critiques of anti-Semitism. While more nuanced than Phyllis Chesler's The New Anti-Semitism, Schoenfeld's work is more polemical and will find a smaller audience than Abraham Foxman's Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism.
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- PublisherEncounter Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1594030898
- ISBN 13 9781594030895
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Although our government hardly acknowledges the fact, and fails to orient its policies accordingly," begins Gabriel Schoenfeld in this profoundly disquieting book, "the United States is today locked in a conflict with adversaries for whom hatred of Jews lies at the core of their beliefs." To anyone with even a modest acquaintance with current events, it is clear that the Muslim world is today the epicenter of a particularly virulent brand of anti-Semitic hatred. But anti-Semitism has also reawakened dramatically in Europe, where it was long thought to be completely dormant if not entirely extinct. And as Schoenfeld shows, it is also making unprecedented headway in the United States, a country where it has never before found truly fertile soil. "The Return of Anti-Semitism" traces the confluence of several lethal currents: the infusion of judeophobia into Islamic fundamentalism; the rise of terrorist movements (including al Qaeda) that are motivated in large measure by a pathological hatred of Jews; the deliberate and well-financed export of anti-Semitism from the Muslim world into Europe and from there into the United States; and the rebirth of older anti-Semitic traditions in the West that were thought to have ended along with Nazism. Schoenfeld shows that the most vicious ideas about Jews today are not voiced by the downtrodden and disenfranchised fringe elements of society, but by its most highly educated and "progressive" segments. This is true in the Islamic world, and it is even truer in the West. One is less likely to find anti-Semites today in beer halls and trailer parks than among the mass media and in faculty lounges. And while yesterday's anti-Semitism appeared in periods of economic and political stress, its alarming return comes at a time when the Western democracies are secure and free from the social turmoil that contributed to the rise of fascism. An old disease, one that many assumed was permanently eradicated, has reappeared in our world. "The Return of Anti-Semitism" is a profound analysis of a great and growing danger. Suitable for those who wish to understand the peril confronting Jews, Israel, and Western democracy as a whole. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781594030895
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