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Antisemitism in the Far-left

Antisemitism in the Far-left

Dr. Dave Rich, Dr. David Hirsh

We now turn to explore a second sphere from which antisemitism emanates today – the Far-left. As can be expected from opposing political ideologies, the way antisemitism is expressed in the contemporary Far-left is different from the way it is expressed in the Far-right.

What perceptions of the Jews exist in the Far-left and what are the roots of these perceptions? How can people in the Left, whose ideology promotes tolerance and equality, hold antisemitic views?

References

  • Fine, Robert and Philip Spencer, Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

  • Hirsh, David, Contemporary Left Antisemitism (London: Routledge, 2018).

  • Jacobs, Jack, ed., Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

  • Mendelsohn, Ezra, ed., Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (New York: New York University Press, 1997).

  • Mendes, Philip, Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

  • Norwood, Stephen H., Antisemitism and the American Far Left (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

  • Rich, Dave, The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism (London: Biteback Publishing, 2016).

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