'anti-semetic', 'antisemetic'; The same spelling mistake made twice by
a scholar?!
On 2/18/12, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> As I was saying in an earlier post with regard to accusation of M.
> Mahathir of Malaysia as an 'anti-semetic', the term or the particular racism
> has an European context because it was specifically crafted by the Nazi. An
> Asian man lambasting post-WWII Jewish dominance of Western foreign policy,
> and protesting the plight of the Palestinians and the resulting Islamophobia
> cannot be characterized as antisemetic no matter how many glitzy Western
> Statesmen condemned Mahathir with that allegation.
>
> Farida
>
> Read also Pankaj Mishra on Tony Judt: Orwell's Heir?
>
> http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/01/orwell-tony-judt-pankaj-mishra-liberalism/
> Goodbye to all that
> Tony Judt
> 18th December 2004 — Issue 105
>
> Europe has a more balanced debate than America about the extent and causes
> of today's antisemitism. But in both places we must defend a firewall
> between criticism of Israeli governments and antisemitism
>
>
>
>
> Antisemitism today is a genuine problem. It is also an illusory problem. The
> distinction between the two is one of those contemporary issues that most
> divides Europe from the US. The overwhelming majority of Europeans abhors
> recent attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions and takes them very
> seriously. But it is generally recognised in Europe that these attacks are
> the product of local circumstances and are closely tied to contemporary
> political developments in Europe and the middle east.
>
> Thus the increase in anti-Jewish incidents in France or Belgium is correctly
> attributed to young men, frequently of Muslim or Arab background: the
> children or grandchildren of immigrants. This is a new and disconcerting
> challenge and it is far from clear how it should be addressed, beyond the
> provision of increased police protection. But it is not, as they say, "your
> grandfather's antisemitism."
>
> As seen from the US, however, Europe—especially "old" or western Europe—is
> in the grip of recidivism: reverting to type, as it were. Rockwell Schnabel,
> the US ambassador to the EU, recently spoke of antisemitism in Europe
> "getting to a point where it is as bad as it was in the 1930s." George Will,
> a prominent columnist in the Washington Post, wrote in May 2002 that
> antisemitism among Europeans "has become the second—and final?—phase of the
> struggle for a 'final solution to the Jewish question.'" These are not
> isolated instances: among American elites as well as in the population at
> large, it is widely assumed that Europe, having learned nothing from its
> past, is once again awash in the old antisemitism.
>
> The American view clearly reflects an exaggerated anxiety. The problem of
> antisemitism in Europe today is real, but it needs to be kept in proportion.
> According to America's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has worked harder
> than anyone to propagate the image of rampant European antisemitism, there
> were 22 significant antisemitic incidents in France in April 2002, and a
> further seven in Belgium; for the whole of that year the ADL catalogued 193
> such incidents in France, varying from antisemitic graffiti on Jewish-owned
> shops in Marseille to Molotov cocktails thrown at synagogues in Paris, Lyon
> and elsewhere.
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