Readjusting Cultural Codes: Reflections on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism

Volkov, Shulamit

doi:10.1080/13531040500503054

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“…In Latin America today, the diverse dimensions interact in specific ways. Mutually reinforcing anti-Semitic (and later anti-colonial and anti-imperialist) meanings get transferred and reinforced through a historical (and now trans-regional and trans-national) cultural/ideological code that characterizes wide sectors of intellectuals, public figures, and the media (Volkov 2007). Thus, in a wider spectrum, anti-Semitism has become a transnational phenomenon of global concern that in some instances gets expressed through criticism of Israel as the embodiment of collective Jewry.…”

Section: Epiloguementioning

confidence: 96%

On Diaspora and Loyalties in Times of Globalization and Transnationalism: Response to the Sklare Lecture

Liwerant

2014

Cont Jewry

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Section: Epiloguementioning

confidence: 96%

On Diaspora and Loyalties in Times of Globalization and Transnationalism: Response to the Sklare Lecture

Liwerant

2014

Cont Jewry

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“…Anti-Israel expressions became more prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s in developing countries (Volkov 2006), which also comes to the fore in al-Da ( wa, published in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Egypt, a developing country (Bruton 1983) that was the first Arab nation to establish peace with Israel. This politicization of antisemitism (Schroeter 2018) went hand in hand with Volkov's notion that through the adoption of old antisemitic claims, the Jews became a symbol of the West (Volkov 2006), in this case, especially the US. Conspiracies are, moreover, often the work of a minority composed of foreigners or financed by and in league with foreign powers, usually operating in secrecy (Moscovici 1987;Keeley 1999;van Prooijen et al 2015).…”

Section: The Functionality Of Antisemitic Conspiracies For the Muslim...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Conspiracy Theories and Muslim Brotherhood Antisemitism under Sadat

Santing

2022

Religions

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This paper highlights how the Muslim Brotherhood instrumentalized antisemitic conspiracies in its journal al-Daʻwa in its bid to strengthen its socio-political authority under Sadat. After discussing theoretical insights on conspiracy theories and (Muslim and Muslim Brotherhood) antisemitism, the paper zooms in on the return of the Muslim Brotherhood under Sadat, focusing on the movement’s internal dynamics and its growing socio-political ambitions, followed by a content analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories found in al-Daʻwa. The final part of the paper analyses the different dimensions and the functions of these antisemitic conspiracies for the movement. The paper concludes that through the antisemitic conspiracies, the Muslim Brotherhood has positioned itself as a religious, moral and political authority. Although al-Daʻwa promulgated classical (European) antisemitic conspiracies, these were utilized by the movement for purposes other than mere hatred and distrust of the Jews and Jewish–Muslim polemics.

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“…Beyond acknowledging the persistence of anti-Jewish feelings, it is the historian's role to explain how and why a certain form of anti-Semitism characterizes certain societies at certain times." 32 Volkov's famous thesis, first set forth in her now classic 1978 article, "Anti-Semitism as a Cultural Code," led to a Copernican turn in the study of antisemitism that students of American antisemitism would do well to emulate. Antisemitism, she showed, revealed less about Jews than about the culture that stigmatized them.…”

Section: Response By Jonathan Sarnamentioning

confidence: 99%