1st Edition

Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Challenge for Israel

Edited By Efraim Karsh, Efrat Aviv Copyright 2025
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

It has been one of Zionism’s foremost credos that so long as Jews continued their millenarian dispersal as small minorities in countless countries around the globe, antisemitism would remain unabated. Only by reinstating the Jewish people as an equal member of the comity of nations through reestablishment of its own independent state in the ancestral homeland would Jews be able to regain normalcy... Read more

Introduction: The never-ending war against the Jews

Efraim Karsh

 

1. ‘The Jews are our Misfortune!’ Contemporary antisemitism as a hydra-headed phenomenon

Ben Cohen

 

2. The social psychology of contemporary antisemitism

Rusi Jaspal

 

3. The apartheid and racism campaigns: The NGO contribution to antisemitism

Gerald M. Steinberg

 

4. Lethal journalism and own-goal antisemitism: The tragic march of folly at the turn of the millennium

Richard Landes

 

5. The Israelization of Jew-hatred and the concept ‘antisemitism-light’

Evyatar Friesel and Monika Schwarz-Friesel

 

6. The long trail of Palestinian antisemitism

Efraim Karsh

 

7. Iran’s antisemitism and anti-Zionism: Eliminationist or performative?

Ofira Seliktar

 

8. Abdullah Öcalan’s Anti-Zionism

H. Bahadır Türk

 

8. Localised tropes of antisemitism and the Holocaust in East-Asian political discourses: Three case studies

Alon Levkowitz, Ran Shauli and Michal Zelcer-Lavid

 

9. Bulgarian antisemitism in the 21st century

Rumyana Marinova-Christidi

 

10. The reception of contemporary Israeli literature in China: The case of Etgar Keret

Danielle Gurevitch and Xiu Gao

 

Biography

Efraim Karsh is Emeritus Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London and Former Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He is the author of 16 books including Palestine Betrayed (2011), Empires of the Sand (2001), Islamic Imperialism: A History (2013), Arafat’s War (2007), and Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography (2007).

Efrat Aviv is Associate Professor of History at Bar-Ilan University specializing in Turkish history and politics. She is the author of Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Turkey from Ottoman Rule to the AKP (Routledge, 2017) among other books.