Understanding Antisemitism: Perspectives on new antisemitism

The following post was created at the suggestion of Prof Gerald Steinberg on twitter on 1 September 2014.

Anthony Julius (1956-)
British lawyer and academic

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Selected Books

Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford University Press 2010). ISBN 978-0-19-929705-4.

Selected articles/papers

Rachel Cooke (2010-02-07). "Anthony Julius on Diana, Dina and the new antisemitism". The Observer. Archived from the original on 20 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-09.

Diana lawyer vows to fight Israeli academic boycott, The Guardian, 7 June 2007

British Jewish group sparks outrage with Gaza blockade criticism, Haaretz, 2 February 2008

Contrary responses

Ben White, 'Major defeat in case claiming union was anti-semitic', 27 March 2013
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/03/27/major-defeat-for-case-claiming-union-was-anti-semitic/

Jamie, UCU Cleared Of Antisemitism - Anthony Julius Charged With ‘Being Rubbish’, 26 March 2013
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/ucu_cleared_of_antisemitism_anthony_julius_charged_with_being_rubbish

Stephen Sizer, 'Trial of the Diaspora', 23 November 2012
http://stephensizer.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/trials-of-diaspora.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius, 27 February 2010
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/27/trials-of-the-diaspora-julius

"Antony Lerman examines England's long history of antisemitism...Julius is not just creating anti-Zionist labels in the abstract. He pins them on individuals, giving pride of place to so-called "new Jewish anti-Zionists". And it's here that he reveals the bankruptcy, confusion and malign nature of his project. He calls Independent Jewish Voices "anti-Zionist", yet among its signatories are Zionists, non-Zionists and anti-Zionists. He then unjustifiably singles out certain individual signatories as exemplifying the "new anti-Zionism", misreading and misinterpreting their writings to prove his case. In Julius's eyes the misdemeanours of these Jews are not minor. They are accused of being fellow travellers of antisemitism, whose "contributions to antisemitism are significant". Isn't this a gnat's crotchet away from calling them "Jewish antisemites"?

The fact is that anti-Zionism – which I think is like insisting the Earth is flat – can be a cloak for, or synonymous with, antisemitism. He could have demonstrated this by continuing to write the history of antisemitism from 1967 on, instead of wasting 150 pages on political polemic. There is merit in the earlier sections of this book, but the deficient treatment of anti-Zionism casts a shadow over the whole work."

Robert Wistrich (1945-)
Head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Selected Books

The Left Against Zion.Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 1979. ISBN 0-85303-199-1
Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity. Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0-415-04233-X
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Contemporary World. New York University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8147-9237-5
Antisemitism, the Longest Hatred. Pantheon, 1992.
Theodor Herzl: Visionary of the Jewish State. New York and Jerusalem: Herzl Press and Magnes Press, 1999, 390 pages.
Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia. Routledge, 1999. ISBN 90-5702-497-7
Islamic Judeophobia: An Existential Threat, in Muhammad's Monsters, Balfour Books, 2004, editor David Bukay.
A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism - From Antiquity to the Global Jihad, Random House, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4000-6097-9