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The place of antisemitism in the Far-right

The place of antisemitism in the Far-right

Prof. Ruth Wodak

In previous weeks we saw how antisemitism held a major part in Far-right ideologies. What place does it hold in this sphere today and why?

References

  • Caiani, Manuela, Donatella della Porta and Claudius Wagemann, eds., Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

  • Rensmann, Lars, “The Politics of Paranoia: How—and Why—the European Radical Right Mobilizes Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Counter-Cosmopolitanism,” in Charles Asher Small, ed., Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013).

  • Wodak, Ruth, “The Radical Right and Anti-Semitism,” in Jens Rydgren, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

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