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Recently, Jewish voices have begun to warn against a 'new anti-Semitism' fueled by moral concerns about Israel. Opponents have retorted that opposition to 'Zionism' is by no means anti-Semitic. This book, by a non-Jewish analytic philosopher, assesses the relative merits of these opposed views and offers a detailed examination of the moral and intellectual credentials of the widespread current of opinion whose growth underlies both.
- Sales Rank: #2440655 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Rowman n Littlefield Publishers
- Published on: 2006-10-27
- Released on: 2006-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.04" h x .71" w x 6.10" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
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Astonishing…a thorough examination of those forms of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist polemic which skirt close to, and frequently cross over into, political anti-Semitism…This is a powerful, explosive book. Read it from cover to cover. Now and again you will need to deploy the arguments it so cogently presents you with, the ones you always knew were there but could not produce for yourself. We needed it. A non-Jew has provided it. (The Jewish Chronicle, USA, (Uk))
What makes this book so impressive is that it goes beyond the current political controversy and makes an original and worthwhile contribution to moral philosophy. Harrison presents a subtle pluralist view of morality, arguing that some moral problems-like some of those arising from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-have no solution that can be fully satisfactory from a moral point of view. He lucidly analyzes a certain zealously moralistic ethos, which used to be religious but which can now be found secularized on the political left. The book is a timely warning that what seems to be a solid moral high ground may in fact be a terrain prone to subsidence and collapse. (Thomas Mautner, Visiting Fellow, School of Humanities, Australian National University and editor of The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy)
I write as a long-time leftist, writer on Marxist theory, and charter member of the New Left. Harrison brings a precise philosopher's intelligence to the vexing, frightening, and at times disgusting phenomenon of left-wing anti-semitism. If his history is at times one-sided and his account of the left simplistic, he has nailed the many failures of left moral clarity and intellectual imagination. If you've ever wondered why and how seemingly liberal, left, anti-racist, nice people can hold such distorted views on Israel, this is an excellent book for you. If you think of yourself as progressive and think Israel has no right to exist, or is the sole cause of the conflict, you'd better read it immediately. (Roger Gottlieb)
Let me say straight out that this is an extraordinary book and a delight to read. Intellectually it goes far beyond anything else written on the "New Anti-Semitism." It is a wonderful remedy for the close-mindedness and lazy thinking that beset so much of modern culture, and that are most manifest when intelligent people opinionate about anti-Semitism and Israel. Harrison is attempting to reveal to well-intentioned and bien-pensant readers the blind spots in their own consciousness which deflect them into very dangerous and distasteful channels of anti-Semitism. Anyone who felt that Edward Said's Orientalism opened up new intellectual vistas is bound to have a similar - if disconcerting - thrill of the disturbingly new when reading this book. (Paul Lawrence Rose, Professor of European History, Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Pe)
By bringing the gifts of analytic philosophy and moral passion to bear on the antisemitism of liberals, Bernard Harrison, like George Eliot before him, has revealed the link between bad reasoning ― vilification and canard ― and its violent consequences. The Resurgence of Antisemitism is an admirable work of heroic conscience, and merits the attention of every open and honest mind. (Cynthia Ozick)
Anti-Semitism always needs a new form - the name it takes in one generation becomes a slur in the next, but its capacity for mutation and perennial resurgence means that new forms and new arguments are always available to reinstate it in mainstream respect. Harrison brilliantly exposes this cycle of self-deception for what it is. This is one of those rare books that assesses the arguments in a way that produces illumination, rather than a fog of obfuscation. But it is more than that. It is also a polemical book, thought-provoking, original, and independent in approach. (Brenda Almond, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Hull, United Kingdom and Editor of Contemporary Ethical Deba)
Bernard Harrison, a philosophy professor at the University of Utah, has done something unusual. In today's climate of fearful academic inquiry, which often wavers between conspiracy theories and a refusal to acknowledge harmful trends, Harrison has written a sane, balanced book on the growing anti-Semitism in Left-influenced liberal circles. (Journal Of The Royal Musical Association)
Outlining a precise boundary between anti-semitism and legitimate criticism of Israeli policies, the author demonstrates, through critical analysis of liberal literature and commentaries, that the Left's articulation of moral indignation verges on―if it is not rooted in―an anti-semitism that has a long, bloody history. Recommended. (M.F. Nefsky, University of Lethbridge CHOICE)
Bernard Harrison has brought talents he honed for 40 years in what he calls 'the amiable sharkpool of analytic philosophy' to brilliantly dissect the anti-Semitism currently purveyed by the left. An elegant stylist, Harrison is deadly in shredding the claims of the exponents of the new anti-Semitism. Harrison is superb dissecting the meretricious reasoning characteristic of anti-Semitism, the internal contradictions, the incoherence, and the evasion of contradictory evidence. (Rael Jean Isaac, Mercy College Springer)
About the Author
Bernard Harrison taught for twenty-nine years at the University of Sussex, successively as lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Philosophy, before moving in 1992 to the E.E. Ericksen Chair of Philosophy at the University of Utah, where he remains an Emeritus Professor. He has also taught or held research posts at the Universities of Michigan, Toronto, Cincinnati and Western Australia, and at the Australian national University. He is the author of seven books and more than fifty papers in journals and anthologies. His interests range from the philosophy of language, ethics, and the interpretation of Wittgenstein, to philosophy and literature. His recent books include Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory (Yale University Press, 1991) and Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language (with Patricia Hanna: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
A mental disorder that invades minds, bodies and society
By Peter Uys
In this absorbing book, Harrison examines the New Antisemitism as it manifests today on the Left Liberal side of the political spectrum, with special reference to the BBC and publications like The New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent. In the opening chapter, he defines the meaning, differentiating between "social" and "political" Antisemitism. The political variety is that in which Jewish people collectively are viewed as being involved in a conspiracy to promote political agendas objectionable to those on the Liberal Left. They are moreover seen as an obstacle to world peace because of the existence of the State of Israel.
In the second chapter he dissects the January 14, 2002 issue of The New Statesman with its infamous cover art and articles by Dennis Sewell and John Pilger, as well as the faux apology by editor Peter Wilby that followed reader complaints. The brilliance of this chapter lies in the understated and tactful way that Harrison exposes the rhetorical techniques employed to slander the Jewish people under the guise of criticizing Israeli actions. In the same cautious manner he reveals the lies, inconsistencies and contradictions of people like Robert Fisk and others.
Chapter 3: Jews Against Israel, demonstrates the absurdity of the notion that all Jews support Israel. Harrison calls it "diversity denial", which is nothing else but an aspect of racism that has always been a feature of political Antisemitism. He deals not only with the overwhelming evidence of Jewish sympathy with the plight of the Palestinian Arabs versus the lack of such by Arabs towards Jews, but also with those vicious Jewish enemies of the Jewish people and the state of Israel like Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, with reference to the work of Sartre, Alan Dershowitz and French author Daniel Lindenberg amongst others.
The next chapter explores the ways in which moral hyperbole and deliberate disinformation are used to demonize Israel. Quoting Thomas Friedman, he queries why this stance, which draws upon a phony humanitarian justification, is so universal amongst the liberal elites in the arts, academia and media. Criticism of Israel is not Antisemitism, but singling out Israel out of all proportion to the situation in the Middle East and the world at large definitely is. In the rest of this chapter he refutes many of the smears against Israel based on concepts like colonialism and the single state solution, the proponents of which ignore the massacres, acts of terror and statements of Arab leaders before and after 1948. Also discussed is the 1919 agreement between Emir Faisal and Chaim Weitzmann.
Next, Harrison looks at definitions of fascism. The phenomenon is not confined to the political Right, since the USSR was as fascist as the Third Reich. Nor is it absent in the Third World. The inability to distinguish between people and their leaders is a fallacy often made by patronising Western intellectuals. As for the accusation that Israel is a "racist, apartheid" state, the author argues that it is instead a nearly textbook example of a multicultural society. There are Black Israelis and Arab Jews and anyone can convert to Judaism. In Israel the holy places and right to worship of all religions are respected, which is not the case over vast areas of the planet.
One reason for the hysterical criticism is that the Left has abandoned economics and history for morality. Chapter 8 deals with the notion of guilt and shows how extravagant the Left has become in its moral condemnation and accusation. The grotesqueries of inter alia Orla Guerin of the BBC and Robert Fisk of The Independent are examined here. In this view, all Jewish Israelis are "guilty" while the Arab World bears no responsibility whatever for the plight of the Palestinian Arabs. See also Can We Trust the BBC? by Robin Aitken.
The concluding chapter attempts to find the reason for this state of affairs. Harrison believes that a longing for simple answers and instant moral conviction - the easy soundbite - is part of the problem. But he also shows that much of the nature of the criticism resembles the "old" Antisemitism - same assumptions, imagery and concepts are employed. The fad of Moral Relativism is not applied to both sides; it is used for justifying suicide/homicide bombings but never to the measures taken by Israel to defend itself. Some victims are more equal than others.
The Appendix is a bibliography of books and articles devoted to carefully documented examples of the New Antisemitism, including La Nouvelle Judeophobie by Pierre-Andre Taguieff, The Return of Anti-Semitism by Gabriel Schoenfeld, The New Anti-Semitism by Phyllis Chesler and Occidentalism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit. On the subject of Jews opposed to Israel, Jewish Divide Over Israel, edited by Edward Alexander and Paul Bogdanor and Those Who Forget the Past by Ron Rosenbaum and Cynthia Ozick are excellent books. UK government sources and the relevant website addresses of the two main political parties in the UK are also provided. The book concludes with an index.
Despite the disturbing subject matter, The Resurgence Of Anti-Semitism is a gripping read on account of its eloquence. As a polemic, it perhaps treads too softly, trying to persuade by reason. I agree with Andre Glucksmann that the concept of a contagion of hatred must be taken literally as a mental disorder that invades minds, bodies and society. Such an outbreak inoculates itself against those who oppose it and is immune to reason.
It is interesting to compare Harrison's approach with that of Nick Cohen in What's Left?. In my opinion, the most valuable book on Antisemitism, exploring all its shape-shifting manifestations down the ages and across the political-religious spectrum, is Why the Jews? by Dennis Prager, as it engages with the neglected spiritual dimension of this mental disease. For information on the modern Christian variety, see Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel by Paul Merkley. I recommend The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther by Yoram Hazony, to learn how to deal with it.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Just excellent.
By S. B. Volchan
One of the clearest discussion I've seen on the issue. In particular, the last chapter is a real gem: it is the best dissection/explanation of the reasons behind present day left-wing antisemitism. A must.
46 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
Focused, well-argued, important
By Roger S. Gottlieb
I write as a long-time leftist, writer on Marxist theory, and charter member of the New Left.
Harrison brings a precise philosopher's intelligence to the vexing, frightening, and at times disgusting phenomenon of left-wing anti-semitism. If his history is at times one-sided and his account of the left simplistic, he has nailed the many failures of left moral clarity and intellectual imagination. If you've ever wondered why and how seemingly liberal, left, anti-racist, nice people can hold such distorted views on Israel, this is an excellent book for you. If you think of yourself as progressive and think Israel has no right to exist, or is the sole cause of the conflict, you'd better read it immediately.
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