The Muhammad Al-Dura Blood Libel: A Case Analysis

- Interview with Richard Landes

2007-2008: Another Year of Global Academic Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism

- Manfred Gerstenfeld

The academic year 2007-2008 saw ongoing anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic incidents in various countries. Much of the academic anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism occurs in Britain, Canada, and the United States. Israel Apartheid Week  has become an annual ritual in a number of cities on several continents. So have the calls of the University and College Union (UCU) in the United Kingdom for discriminatory measures against Israeli universities and academics.

Muslims and Jews in Switzerland

- Simon Erlanger

There has so far been no openly anti-Jewish mass movement among Muslims. Kurds, Turks, and Bosnians tend to be more secular and friendlier toward Jews than Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East. Certain Muslim groups want to learn from the established Jewish community how to gain legal, political, and social acceptance in Switzerland. Muslims have not been the driving force behind the Swiss version of the new Europe-wide anti-Semitism. However, there is a growing radicalization of disaffected Muslim youth, with Islamism gaining ground among certain groups.

How Modernity Changed Judaism

- Interview with Rabbi David Ellenson

The advent of modernity led to radical political and legal changes for Jewry, particularly in the West. Coercive belonging to a community was replaced by voluntary adherence to what might best be called a congregation. The political and legal changes also led to many religious, cultural, financial, and social developments.

Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews

- Manfred Gerstenfeld, Editor

Academics Against Israel and the Jews

- Manfred Gerstenfeld, Editor

The new century has seen many attempts to discriminate against Israel, its academic institutions, and its scholars in several Western countries. This includes boycotting Israeli universities and academics as well as calling for divestment from Israeli securities. The campaigns frequently use anti-Semitic motifs and sometimes also involve violent anti-Semitic acts. Eighteen essays from four continents discuss a variety of cases of discrimination and how Israel and Jews can defend themselves against such initiatives. Foreword by Natan Sharansky

The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City by Dore Gold

- Reviewed by Isi Leibler

The author argues convincingly that proposed concessions of Israeli control over Jerusalem will pave the way for Islamic radicals and terrorists to make further demands and will strengthen the forces behind the global jihad, including Al-Qaeda.

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel

- Reviewed by Amnon Lord

Major Anti-Semitic Motifs in Arab Cartoons

- Joël Kotek

The main recurrent motif in Arab cartoons concerning Israel is "the devilish Jew." This image conveys the idea that Jews behave like Nazis, kill children and love blood. The similarity with themes promulgated by the Nazis is evident. Many Arab cartoons praise suicide bombing or call for murder. The collective image of the Jews thus projected lays the groundwork for a possible genocide. 

Palestinian Crimes against Christian Arabs and Their Manipulation against Israel

- Interview with Justus R. Weiner

Under the Palestinian regime Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims. Palestinian Authority officials are directly responsible for many of the human rights violations. Yet for political and economic reasons many Palestinian Christian leaders blame Israel for these crimes rather than the actual perpetrators.

American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense the Bonds of Peoplehood?

- Steven Bayme

American Jewish leadership, initially ambivalent about the creation of a Jewish state, quickly formed a pro-Israeli consensus within the Jewish community. Although tensions remain in relations between Israel and American Jewry, particularly over issues of personal status and religious pluralism, the pro-Israeli consensus has generally held firm over a sixty- year period.

Pakistan and Israel

- Moshe Yegar

Since Israel's establishment in May 1948, Pakistan, being a Muslim country, has refused to establish diplomatic relations with it. The agreements that Israel signed with Egypt in 1978, the PLO in 1993, and Jordan in 1994 brought no change in Pakistan's policy. However, Israeli and Pakistani officials maintained clandestine contacts over the years.

Ernst Nolte and the Memory of the Shoah

- Sergio I. Minerbi

Nolte's path is haphazard and contradictory in an effort to enjoy both worlds: to avoid being seen as a negationist of the Shoah while allowing himself to make a series of outrageous and preposterous points regarding the Shoah. His trajectory and tactics are revealed extensively as is the array of claims he makes. Nolte equates Zionism to Nazism and envisages a future recognition of Hitler as the originator of the State of Israel.

Holocaust Denial as an Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Tool for the European Far Left

- Dave Rich

The growth of an antiglobalization, anti-imperialist political movement has created a political space on the Left in which Holocaust denial is no longer taboo, if framed in an anti-Zionist context. Mainstream Holocaust commemoration is increasingly under attack as a Zionist or imperialist tool. For some leftists, the contradiction between their antifascism and their anti-Zionism is solved by casting Jewish communities and the European far Right as political allies.

Deconstructing the "Israel - Apartheid Equation"

- Prof. Gideon Shimoni

"British Antisemitism:
A Suitable Case for Treatment?"

- Prof. Robert S. Wistrich

Great Britain is not generally thought of as a European or world-leader when it comes to modern anti-Semitism. However, in recent years, much has changed. The lecture explores the causes and consequences of this development and of the hostility to Israel that has developed in significant and influential sectors of the British media.

Jewish Perspectives on Genetic Engineering

- Akiva Wolff

The use of genetic engineering is advancing and expanding rapidly in many traditional fields including medicine and agriculture, as well as new fields such as biotechnology. Along with the rapid advances and expansion, there is a growing discussion and debate over the benefits and risks of genetic engineering and the difficult ethical questions raised by this new technology.