Muslim Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe

Elemental and Residual Anti-Semitism

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-1035-7 (ISBN)

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Modern Arab and Muslim hostility towards Jews and Israel is rooted not only in the Arab-Israeli conflict and traditional Islamic teaching but also in Christian anti-Semitic attitudes brought into the Islamic world by Western colonial powers. In this volume, Raphael Israeli examines how the worsening situation in the Middle East together with large waves of Muslim immigration to Europe, North America, and Australia has brought about a comingling of two anti-Semitic traditions.As the author explains, the unique interaction of Muslim immigrants in the West with the host societies brought them into contact with local, traditional anti- Semites of the xenophobic fascist and racist Right along with the avowedly anti-Zionist Left, to build a formidable wall of hatred against the Jewish state and its people. To complicate this picture further, the same Muslim immigrants share with them minority status in a Christian majority society. Often finding themselves at odds with the majority host society, they find themselves subject to criticism and censure on all sides. They are engaged simultaneously in battle with both their host society into which they cannot integrate, and their Jewish compatriots who are a model of good integration. Consequently, they feel exposed and lose ground in the struggle for social acceptance.Israeli lays out the nature and ideologies of the Muslim immigrant world and shows how in each European country they create their own ethnic sub-groups and religious communities, often in competition with each other. This remarkable and courageous book will be of interest to sociologists, Middle East specialists, and political scientists.

Raphael Israeli is professor of Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at The Hebrew University. He has authored twenty five books (most recently Islamikaze, The Iraq War, and Muslim Minorities in Modern States) and numerous scholarly articles in the fields of Islamic radicalism, Islamic terrorism, the modern Middle East, and Islam in China and Asia.

1: The Anti-Semitic Heritage of the Arab and Muslim World; 2: The Psycho-Social Heritage of the Immigrant Muslims in Europe; 3: The Import of the Middle Eastern Dispute into the West; 4: Major Themes of Muslim Anti-Semitism in the West; 5: From Words to Deeds; 6: Anti-Semitism under the Guise of Anti-Zionism and Anti-Israelism; 7: Social and Political Repercussions for the West; 8: Battling Anti-Semitism in the West; Summary

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4128-1035-3 / 1412810353
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-1035-7 / 9781412810357
Zustand	Neuware