ISBN: 9781844678778

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Verso Books, 2013
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 2 x 23.4 cm

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.