Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism (The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA) / Studies ... zum Antisemitismus Book 4)

Much of the ire directed toward Zionism on the British Left drew strongly on motifs found in Soviet propaganda, specifically the equation of Zionism with Nazism and the accusation that the Zionist movement collaborated with the Nazis or even engaged in the killing of Jews to further its own ends.

More fundamentally, the verdict denies Jews the right to determine those elements that comprise their identity and leaves the definition of what constitutes antisemitism to (often hostile) non-Jews.

The orthodox Marxist notion2 that the Jews – as an economic agent – perform a distinctive function within a system designed for the extraction of surplus value has been replaced by the anticolonialist notion that the Jews – as a national collective – are integral to the maintenance of American hegemony on a global level.3 Accordingly, there has bee

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The consequent claim, namely, that Zionism is the “monster” that fuels antisemitism, holds the Jews themselves accountable for prejudice against them. This recasting of Zionism as a causal factor of antisemitism, rather than an authentic Jewish response to it, is a uniquely leftist contribution to antisemitic doctrine. It is, moreover, intimately l