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Additional authors

1. Ménard, Robert
2. Vincent, Léonard

Description

1. 103 p.

Summary

1. A discussion between French journalists Élisabeth Lévy and Robert Ménard on present-day antisemitism in France. Lévy and Ménard first define antisemitism and agree that it exists in the Arab world. Lévy argues that antisemitism is again becoming respectable in France, with the Shoah vanishing into the past. Her eyes were opened to Muslim antisemitism in the suburbs and in left-wing circles by Pierre-André Taguieff's and Emmanuel Brenner's writings. She contends that Muslim antisemitism in France is fomented by Islamization. Ménard, on the other hand, views the surge of domestic Muslim antisemitism since 2000 as an expression not of ideological conviction, but of popular indignation over Israel's violence against the Palestinians in the Middle East. Tracing the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, Lévy states that when anti-Zionism denies Israel's right to exist, it equals antisemitism. Lévy and Ménard agree that the Jewish community's responses to anti-Judaism in France are inadequate; rather than relying on laws which penalize antisemitic behavior and verbal expression, like the Gaysson law of 1990, the Jews should try to change mentalities. Ménard also warns against exceeding commemoration of the Shoah and instrumentalizing it for various purposes; it only feeds the envy of other persecuted or wronged minorities and turns them against the Jews.

Subject

1. Antisemitism -- France.
2. Jews -- France.
3. Lévy, Elisabeth -- Interviews.
4. Ménard, Robert -- Interviews.

Genre/Form

1. Interviews

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. French

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain