Palestinian writer Asma Agbarieh confronts both Arab antisemitism and Israel’s use of antisemitism as moral cover for its policies.
October 2004's Issue
It has been nearly 6o years since the end of the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel. Today the global population of Jewish people is estimated to be 13 million of which most live in North America, Israel and Western Europe (though substantial communities exist in over loo countries worldwide). With public sympathy and widespread awareness of the atrocities committed against the Jewish people in the Second World War and the mass exodus of whole populations to the relative safety of Israel and North America, the decades since have seen some of the lowest incidences of antisemitism in over two millennia.
But antisemitism may be on the rise again. Some even go so far as to describe a `New Antisemitism’ which is gaining a foothold in the Left and Muslim communities worldwide as opposed to the traditional Far Right tendency. Others feel antisemitism is overblown and Jews and the Israeli Government use it as moral cover.
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Life lessons
Shadi was a boy living on the street when Reem Haddad first tried to help him get an education. But then he disappeared. What has happened to him since?
- Reem Haddad
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Zog Ate My Brains
Chip Berlet picks apart popular conspiracy theories and their seductions.
- 1 Oct 2004
- 3
The Unconquerable World: Power, Non-Violence and the Will of the People
The Unconquerable World by Jonathan Schell
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Conspiracy to Murder - The Rwandan Genocide
Conspiracy to Murder by Linda Melvern
- Phil England
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Fear and loathing
Peace activist Lucy Michaels describes how Judeophobia impacts on her life and her work.
- Lucy Michaels
- 1 Oct 2004
- 1
The Longest Hatred
The history of antisemitism makes for grim reading, but understanding is crucial in the fight against it.
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
Famed Jewish violinist and human rights activist Yehudi Menuhin on the origins of his name and its meaning.
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Nollywood looks to the future
There's Hollywood and Bollywood. Now there's Nollywood too: Nigeria's video movie industry is the third most vibrant in the world, as Ike Oguine explains.
- Ike Oguine
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Shinzo Hanabusa
A historic resistance picture from Japan, by ‘The Milk Photographer' – Shinzo Hanabusa.
- Shinzo Hanabusa
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
A human balance
Adam Ma’nit yearns for the release of Jews from the strangling vines of stereotype and bigotry.
- Adam Ma'anit
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Links to cocaine cartels? Paramilitary connections? No problem for Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
- Tom Feiling
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Master of the moment
A tribute to the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson by Indian writer Sadanand Menon.
- Sadanand Menon
- 1 Oct 2004
- 1
Demagogues in Denial
Holocaust denial is the gravest of insults to Jewish memory. Nick Ryan meets the naysayers.
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
The World According to Judeophobes
Many charismatic leaders have found in the Jews the perfect scapegoats.
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Interview with Pandurang Hegde
Defending the forests entails challenging aid and NGOs as well as local governments, says Indian campaigner Pandurang Hegde.
- Jeremy Seabrook
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
Portrait of the Artist as an Antisemite
Artists, writers and musicians have often given credence to hatred of Jews.
- 1 Oct 2004
- 0
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Blood brothers: Saudi Arabia and the West
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The Saudi regime won’t like this magazine. Nor will the Western governments who kowtow to it while exploiting its wealth and paranoia. The Saudi justice ministry threatened to sue a Twitter user who compared the regime with ISIS after poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death ‘for spreading atheism and disrespecting the prophet’. It’s illegal to speak to foreign journalists without authorization and what you say could easily land you in jail. What is guaranteed to please neither the Saudi ruling elite nor Western governments is our interview with Julian Assange. He talks about the latest batch of SaudiLeaks. All that and much more in this magazine.
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