The Politics of Anti-Semitism

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The Politics of Anti-Semitism
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Author Alexander Cockburn
Jeffrey St. Clair
Michael Neumann
Lenni Brenner
Uri Avnery
Robert Fisk
Norman Finkelstein
Edward Said
Subject Antisemitism
Publisher CounterPunch, AK Press
Publication date
October 10, 2003
Pages178
ISBN 978-1-902-59377-7
OCLC 53402015

The Politics of Anti-Semitism is a book edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair and published by AK Press in 2003.

Contributors include former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, former senior CIA analysts Bill and Kathy Christison, professor of philosophy Michael Neumann, Capitol Hill staffer George Sutherland, assistant professor of political science and author Norman Finkelstein, Israeli Uri Avnery Shaheed Alam and Israeli journalists Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner as well as Will Yeoman, Kurt Nimmo and Anne Pettifer.

The book was created in order to investigate how criticism of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, and not related to the religion itself, but to the country. [1] Reviewing the collection, Paul de Rooij notes that "perhaps the greatest value of this book" is its variety of perspectives on "knowing what issues are sensitive, and why." [2]

One essay, by one of the book's editors, Alexander Cockburn, "My Life As an 'Antisemite,'" was written in response to the "accusation of antisemitism" by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. [3] Dershowitz characterizes Cockburn's claims in the essay as ad hominem attacks against Joan Peters, author of the book From Time Immemorial . [4]

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References

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