Ever since a pro-Palestinian movement began to take shape in the late
1960s, there has always been the false claim that anti-Zionism is just
another form of anti-Semitism. Generally speaking, the approach has been
to characterize opposition to Israel as the “new anti-Semitism”.
Apparently, the first attempt to make such an amalgam was made by French
philosopher Pierre-André Taguieff in 1967. In a 2005 interview, he
described anti-Zionism as a kind of communist conspiracy:
>>We are today in a convulsive context marked by two anti-Jewish
configurations, which, since the autumn of 2000, through intolerable
violence against Jewish institutions and individuals perceived as
Jewish, feed the observable wave of Judeophobia in France as in other
European countries. I specified two configurations. One is persistent,
and well known: old anti-Semitism inherent to the extreme right, or
xenophobic nationalism. The other is an emergent - and expanding one,
whose main vectors are the propaganda of the radical Islamist networks
and the demagogy of the new leftists: neo-Communists and neo-leftists,
altermondialists [a French term that usually describes
anti-globalizationists - Tr], Trotskyites and anarchists, all massively
exploiting “the Palestinian cause”, celebrated as a “universal cause” by
the extreme left. One can see there the new expression of the support of
the Third World and revolutionary ideology. The Palestinian martyr
replaces the proletarian struggle for a communist society.<<
So in other words, the “new anti-Semitism” (Taguieff prefers the word
Judeophobia) boils down to anti-imperialist opposition to Israel. One
can hardly imagine what form of solidarity with Palestinians would not
invite this charge. Perhaps the only way to avoid it is to march in the
Israeli day parades and join Hadassah.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/anti-zionism-anti-semitism-anti-dogmatism/
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