Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou (Author), EricHazan (Author), IvanSegre (Author)

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  2013

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  Since the beginning of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies toward the Palestinians. In this context, a key ideological weapon is the cynical accusation of anti-Semitism. For historical reasons, this has been deployed most forcefully in France, and Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan caustically demolish the anti-Semitism is everywhere allegation, used to bludgeon opponents of the Israeli state and those who stand in solidarity with the banlieue youth. Ivan Segre undertakes a meticulous deconstruction of a rampant reactionary philo-Semitism that identifies Jewish interests with the democratic West. Segre's concern is to uphold a universalist position and to defend Jewish tradition from Zionist ideological distortion.