Introduction: The tenacity of race bias -- Chapter 1. Turning anti-Semitism on its head -- Chapter 2. Making 'good Jews' white and European -- Chapter 3. What anti-Semitism really is -- Chapter 4. The Israeli state as a 'cure' for anti-racism -- Chapter 5. Zionism as an escape from Jewishness -- Chapter 6. Mimicking the oppressor -- Chapter 7. Two religions and the nightmare the West created -- Chapter 8. Colonising anti-racism -- Conclusion: The 'new anti-Semitism' and politics today -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary:
Political theorist Steven Friedman addresses how and why the current language around anti-Semitism in Israel has been distorted and weaponised to serve the political objectives of the Israeli state. Friedman's critique examines what this implies for the fight against racism in South Africa and India, and in other parts of the world.
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