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13 statements
01Evidence and context
Ilan Halimi, a young French Jew whose family came from Morocco, was seized on January 21, 2006, held and tortured for three weeks, then killed by the Gang of Barbarians.
On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah killed four people, including three children, at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse.
The Community Security Trust recorded 1,309 antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom in 2016, a 36 percent rise from 2015.
In October 2015 a rally in Malmo heard calls for death to the Jews, and local politicians present raised no objection.
In April 2016 Ken Livingstone was expelled from the Labour Party after saying Hitler supported Zionism before he went mad.
On February 15, 2015, a gunman killed Dan Uzan, who was on security duty outside Copenhagen's main synagogue during a bat mitzvah.
In Norway, hundreds of young Muslims formed a ring of peace around Oslo's main synagogue.
Viktor Orban described George Soros's transnational empire, with international heavy artillery and huge sums, while attacking Central European University.
Antisemites began marking Jewish journalists' names with triple parentheses, an echo from a podcast. Journalists repurposed the mark.
A survey by Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar of 1,157 Jewish students on 55 campuses found that 54 percent had experienced or witnessed antisemitism from September 2013 to March 2014.
The book distinguishes criticism of Israel's policies from antisemitism and states that not all such criticism expresses hatred.
On June 24, 2017, organizers of the Chicago Dyke March told three marchers to leave because, they said, the Star of David flag made people feel unsafe at an anti-Zionist march.
Jonathan Sacks warned that political hatred which starts by targeting Jews does not stop with them.
Context
On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah killed four people, including three children, at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse.
In October 2015 a rally in Malmo heard calls for death to the Jews, and local politicians present raised no objection.
In April 2016 Ken Livingstone was expelled from the Labour Party after saying Hitler supported Zionism before he went mad.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 03Historiography
What scholars debate
Scholarly debate · 01
When is hostility to Israel antisemitism?
2 positions · no single answer · take a seat →
- A
Criticism is not hatred
The chapter's explicit distinction
Criticizing Israeli policies is not, by itself, antisemitism. Israel's own political culture invites debate.
- B
Stereotypes inside the boycott
Kenneth Marcus
Supporters of BDS, whether they mean to or not, frequently recycle hostile images, myths, and stereotypes about Jews.
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims From North Africa to France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).
North African Jews and Muslims in France · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 506inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 507inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 506inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 508inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 507inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 508inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 508inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 509inspect
- 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 510inspect
- 10Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 512inspect
- 11Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 513inspect
- 12Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 514inspect
- 13Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 515inspect
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