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Title: The New Anti-Semitism : The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It by Phyllis Chesler ISBN: 0-7879-6851-X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 11 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: More harm than good...
Comment: This book speaks to weak people who are unsure of their faith and who can only bring themselves up by tearing others down. Once the killing machine starts everybody gets caught up in it. Were Jews that died in the burning of the Jerusalem synagogue by the crusaders the only ones to perish that day? You would think so if all you read were the rantings in this book. How about the Spanish Inquisition, only Jews? And in the Holocaust, only Jews? The answer is not that we need this or that ally or friend. A thousand years ago we were friendly with Arabs over Franks, today we want now to be friends with the Franks over the Arabs? My G-d! The answer is to enjoy what blessings we have and know that we don't deserve them. What curses come let them come while we have a just heart. I don't see that this book prepares us for either. It is just a collection of one-sided complaints!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book; A Book for the 21st Century
Comment: I picked up this book almost by accident and was amazed by its content. I usually avoid contemporary books on politics. By one season later, they are usually outdated and short sighted. As new information comes in, our views on contemporary situations change. So it was a great surprise to me when I picked up this work on the New Anti-Semitism and was thuderstruck by the content, the documentation and the insights.
Chesler, no Jane-come-lately to the political scene, has managed to write a passionate and at the same time insightful book about contemporary anti-Semitism. It is a hair-raising work because it shows that a major past ally of all oppressed peoples, the American left, has seen fit to support every government, every spokesperson, every petty dictatorship and every military movement so long as they comdemn Israel.
Chesler does not stop with an analysis of Middle Eastern warfare and the Arab Nation's desire to push Israel into the sea, she takes on global anti-Semitism as it exists in Asia, Africa and America. She documents its reemergence in Europe. All in all this is a scary book. Unfortunately, it appears to be accurate.
Unlike most authors, Chesler actually gives some suggestions, (at the book's end), of what people can do about anti-Semitism. This is not an easy read. While it is written in clear, understandable language and is easy to access, the message is at best grim and at worst catastrophic. This is an important book and my be her best.
Rating: 5
Summary: Enormously important & desperately relevant. Please read it.
Comment: I studied this thoroughly researched and well written book with a heavy heart. Having researched anti-Semitism (hatred of the Jews) for many years, my heart ached as I analysed this timely and relevant investigation which addresses a modern day, malevolent hostility thought by many to have been assigned to the history books. A subject addressed so eloquently and intensely that I found the book difficult to put down.
The book describes how the state of Israel has itself become the "Jew of the World"; scorned, scapegoated, demonised, ghettoized and isolated as Jews once were in Europe and also whilst living under Islam. An attitude which is portrayed as having escalated since the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and which continues to fester due to political and media approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The reader is provided with evidence that pulls no punches as to how this "new anti-Semitism" is cloaked under many different guises such as "anti-Zionism" and/or "anti-Israelism". However, when closely examined the study proclaims that the same hatred is discovered at it's core. A hatred, which includes all of it's ancient loathing, but is now found under new, more "politically correct labels".
The book describes in considerable detail an attitude which is shown to saturate most media reporting of the Arab-Israeli conflict where Israel is condemned for daring to defend itself in accordance with the right afforded every Sovereign nation, whilst the same media entities simultaneously downplay or are silent about the suicide attacks and massacres of innocent Israeli civilians.
On page 117, the source quotes former British leader Winston Churchill who stated, "A lie gets halfway around the World before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on". The reader is shown from the text how the media has pandered to the agendas of Palestinian extremists who in turn are cited as seeking exploitation of the media & preying on the fears of the public in order to alter their perception of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through a series of half-truths and selective headlines where the State of Israel is frequently de-humanized whilst Palestinians are depicted as victims.
Reference is also made early in the book to the public lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah during 2,000, where Palestinian crowds were shown cheering in the street when those responsible for the atrocity proudly displayed their hands smeared with the blood of the Jewish victims. The reference highlights the utter lack of condemnation from the International media, intellectuals and International "human rights" groups.
The study further addresses what are described here as the lies of this new anti-Semitism along with the partial truths, diabolical distortions and the underlying bias/hatred of most media entities which are specified as so permeating society that even learned scholars and journalists are shown to selectively use or distort facts to fit their own ideologies. An attitude that is characterised in this study as the "political equivalent" of the AIDS virus being unleashed in the World. This study further proclaiming a heartfelt fear from the source that if the daily violence and associated propaganda against the Jewish people is not effectively countered, then the Jews may again be sacrificed to a World again "gone mad" in pursuit of a "sacred scapegoat".
From the text the reader is also shown how the Arab/Palestinian realm have as a more effective way of swaying World opinion now adopted "humanitarian terminology" in support of the "demands" of the Palestinians to replace former proclamations of carnage and obliteration, with the World press being described as functioning as Yasser Arafat's "private public relations firm".
In comparing the attitudes of the media and the International Community in relation to other similar issues, the book also addresses how during the last decade whilst the Irish, Indian, Kashmiri and other "troubles" have continued to simmer, along with the genocidal atrocities in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, these International political and media entities have not in the slightest way demonised the British, Irish, Hindus, Muslims, Hutus or the Serbs in the virulent manner focussed on the Jewish State of Israel.
The reader may not agree with all the personal opinions of the source, but it is difficult not to grasp and appreciate the importance/magnitude of the fundamental issue at the core of this essential study.
I would respectfully recommend the following books to those interested in this issue; "The Case For Israel" by Alan Dershowitz and "Peace; The Arabian Caricature. A Study of Anti-Semitic Imagery" by Arieh Stav.
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Title: The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz ISBN: 047146502X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Right to Exist : A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars by Yaacov Lozowick ISBN: 0385509057 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Never Again? : The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism by Abraham Foxman ISBN: 0060542462 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest by Efraim Karsh ISBN: 0802117589 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0743246209 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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