Title Jews, Antisemitism, and the Middle East

Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Political Correctness and the Obsessive Attack on Israel; Bias in the International Community; Bias in Geneva; The Durban Follies; Animosity or Hatred?; The Accusation of Apartheid; Apartheid Used as a Cultural Weapon; The Big Lie; Israel Is Not a Colonial Power; The Bizarre Alliance against Israel; The Weapon of Boycott; Zionist Thinkers; What the BBC Did Not Know and Should Have Known about Jerusalem; Justice for the Kurds; Secretary-General Ban Goes to Teheran International Dithering over SyriaThe New Potemkin Village: Syria Disguised; Multiculturalism Revisited; An End to Appeasement; Notes; 2 The Surprising and Disturbing Rise of Contemporary Antisemitism; The Devil's Advocate and Free Speech; The Blood Libel Charge in Hungary; Antisemitism on the Rise in Europe; Antisemitism Is Alive and Well in Romania; Aimez-Vous Wagner?; Charles de Gaulle, Raymond Aron, and Israel; The Heroic Italian and the Vel d'Hiv; The New Trojan Horse for Democracies; France Condemns the Holocaust and the Antisemitic Atrocities of the Past The French Railroad and the HolocaustA Convenient Hatred; The Hilsner Case and Ritual Murder; Against All Odds: A Profile of Jewish Survival; Where Is the Art?; Notes; 3 The Arab World and the Islamist Threat; The Problem of Sharia Law in Britain; Is Sharia Law Compatible with Democracy?; Sharia Law, Secular Law, and Rabbinical Courts; No Defamation of Islam; Racism in Arab Lands; Europe and the Coming Universal Caliphate; The Sad Plight of Christians in the Middle East; Eyeless in Gaza; The Disquieting Treatment of Christians by the Palestinians; Evangelicals: Righteous Gentiles for Israel The Arab Spring and RealityGod Save the Queen; Gender in the Middle East; Is Islamic Ideology Totalitarian?; 4 The Palestinian Narrative; The Palestinian Narrative of Victimhood; The Palestinians Are an Invented People; The Palestinian Refugee Issue; Is a Palestinian State Viable Today?; A Palestinian State Is Not Now Economically Viable; The Controversial Life and Death of Yasser Arafat; The Palestinians Reveal the Ties of Jews to Palestine; 5 The Arab-Israeli Conflict; Negotiations, Not Unilateral Declarations; The Palestinians Must Eliminate the Negative Stumbling on the Road to Peace in the Middle EastUnilateral Declaration of a Palestinian State; Discrimination? The Reality of Nationality and Citizenship; Occupied or Disputed Territories?; A Fence for Defense; Israeli Settlements Are Not an Obstacle to Peace; The Unbearable Silence about the Jewish Refugees; Notes; Epilogue: Ironic Reflections; Middle East Glossary: Language and Politics in the Middle East; Europe Faces a Crisis; Index Summary "Will animosity towards Jews and the State of Israel never end? This book ventures to rectify the misrepresentations, propaganda, obsessions, and falsifications widely disseminated in the media and public discourse, explaining the motivations behind them. The issues Michael Curtis scrutinizes are complicated and controversial, sometimes even baffling, but he reviews them in as objective and rigorous a manner as possible. Curtis divides his arguments into five key areas: political correctness and the obsessive attack on Israel; the surprising and disturbing rise of antisemitism; the Arab world and the Islamist threat; the Palestinian narrative; and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The first section focuses on the censorious attitude toward Israel taken by many in the international community. A second section consists of essays on the increase of contemporary antisemitism in Arab and Muslim countries as well as European democracies. In the third section, the author addresses changes in the Arab world, the threat of Iranian ambitions, the new alliance of Sunni Islamist states, and the growing strength and danger of Islamic fundamentalism and extremist behavior. His fourth section, on the Palestinian Narrative, details the acceptance by many critics of Israel and the international media of the Palestinian narrative of victimhood. Finally, the section on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict details the continuing struggle within the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians. This book is a must read for historians, political scientists, Jewish studies scholars, and all those interested in one of the most volatile and controversial regions in the world today."--Provided by publisher Notes Print version record Subject Antisemitism in the press. Antisemitism -- Middle East -- History -- 21st century Antisemitism -- Europe -- History -- 21st century Jews -- Foreign public opinion Public opinion -- Arab countries Public opinion -- Europe Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence Antisemitism Antisemitism in the press Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence Public opinion SUBJECT Israel -- Foreign public opinion Subject Arab countries Europe Israel Middle East Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351510738 1351510738

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