The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century is about the rise of antizionism and antisemitism in the first two decades of the 21st century, with a focus on the UK. It is written by the activist-intellectuals, both Jewish and not, who led the opposition to the campaign for an academic boycott of Israel. Their experiences convinced them that the boycott movement, and the antizionism upon which it was based, was fuelled by, and in turn fuelled, antisemitism. The book shows how the level of hostility towards Israel exceeded the hostility which is levelled against other states. And it shows how the quality of that hostility tended to resonate with antisemitic tropes, images and emotions. Antizionism positioned Israel as symbolic of everything that good people oppose, it made Palestinians into an abstract symbol of the oppressed, and it positioned most Jews as saboteurs of social ‘progress’. The book shows how antisemitism broke into mainstream politics and how it contaminated the Labour Party as it made a bid for Downing Street. This book will be of interest to scholars and students researching antizionism, antisemitism and the Labour Party in the UK.

Building on contemporary research developments, this collection of studies focuses on vocabulary size, vocabulary knowledge and writing, affix knowledge, pronunciation, translanguaging, language learning strategies, considerations of oral participation and academic adaptation. Insights shared in the edited volume are informed by pedagogy in the context of Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand, and at various levels of the education system. The theoretical discussions, methodologies adopted and implications discussed inform future research avenues in the areas of language and education.

Bringing a sociologist's insight to legal institutions and narratives, this book is an innovative and timely sociological contribution to current concerns regarding critical cosmopolitanism, human rights and crimes against humanity.

Many of the world's 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success. This book presents case studies of endangered language groups from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific (including Bisu, Iban, Iquito, Quechua, Wawa, Yi and sign languages) and of their associated knowledge and belief systems, to highlight the importance of preserving linguistic and cultural diversity. Issues of identity and pride emerge within the book, alongside discussion of language and culture policy.

Reflecting growth in research interest in second language vocabulary over the past 30 years, this edited volume explores the current themes and possible future directions in second language vocabulary research. The collection brings together review papers and quantitative studies, and considers vocabulary in the contexts of teaching, learning and assessment. Key themes explored in the volume include multidimensionality of vocabulary knowledge, the nature of word learnability, the interface between receptive vocabulary knowledge and productive vocabulary use, the partial-to-precise continuum of vocabulary knowledge, conditions favouring vocabulary learning and use, and the use of corpora to develop word lists to inform second language teaching. The themes presented in this volume reflect current thinking and research avenues at the interface between research enquiry and second language teaching practice.

Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in academic writing by exploring recurring patterns of function in texts representing different subject areas. The book presents a framework which describes academic word use at the ideational, textual and interpersonal levels. Functional categories are presented and illustrated which explain the role of academic words alongside general purpose and technical terms. The author examines biomedical research articles, and journal articles from arts, commerce and law. A comparable analysis focuses on university textbook chapters. Case studies investigate patterns of functionality within the main sections of research articles, compare word use in academic and non-academic texts reporting on the same research, and explore the carrier word function of academic vocabulary. The study concludes by looking at historical and contemporary processes which have shaped the presence of academic vocabulary in the English lexicon.

In this text, discussion of theoretical debates and development surrounding humanitarian and human rights law is anchored in studies of four trials, two at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, the London trial of Andrei Sawoniuk in 1999 for crimes during the Holocaust, and the David Irving libel case. The author makes a case for seeing these trials as part of an emergent cosmopolitan criminal law, and takes on critics of this school of thought who see it as either idealistic or culturally imperialistic.

The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century is about the rise of antizionism and antisemitism in the first two decades of the 21st century, with a focus on the UK.

It is written by the activist-intellectuals, both Jewish and not, who led the opposition to the campaign for an academic boycott of Israel. Their experiences convinced them that the boycott movement, and the antizionism upon which it was based, was fuelled by, and in turn fuelled, antisemitism. The book shows how the level of hostility towards Israel exceeded the hostility which is levelled against other states. And it shows how the quality of that hostility tended to resonate with antisemitic tropes, images and emotions. Antizionism positioned Israel as symbolic of everything that good people oppose, it made Palestinians into an abstract symbol of the oppressed, and it positioned most Jews as saboteurs of social ‘progress’. The book shows how antisemitism broke into mainstream politics and how it contaminated the Labour Party as it made a bid for Downing Street.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students researching antizionism, antisemitism and the Labour Party in the UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction

David Hirsh

1 Demonisation blueprints: Soviet conspiracist antizionism in contemporary left-wing discourse

Izabella Tabarovsky

2 Turning full circle: From the Anti-Nazi League to Corbynism: how so much of the radical left in the UK abandoned Jews and embraced antisemitism

Philip Spencer

3 Durban antizionism

David Hirsh and Hilary Miller

4 Demystifying antisemitism: A return to critical theory

David Seymour

5 Is Palestine a feminist issue?: Intersectionality and its discontents

Karin Stögner

6 Cancelling Israel and displacing Palestine: Narratives of a boycott

John Strawson

7 The legal construction of Jewish identity as a ‘protected characteristic’ through an examination of Fraser v UCU (2013), Parker v Sheffield Hallam University (2016) and the Report of the EHRC into Antisemitism in the Labour Party (2020)

Lesley Klaff

8 Seven Jewish Children and definitions of antisemitism

Sarah Annes Brown

9 Learning and teaching about antisemitism

Mira Vogel

10 Climate catastrophe, the ‘Zionist Entity’ and ‘The German guy’: An anatomy of the Malm–Jappe dispute

Matthew Bolton

11 Whither liberal Zionism?

Anthony Julius

This three-volume anthology comprises diverse intellectual responses to the Hamas-organised day of murder, sexual violence and kidnapping.

Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it. It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to Palestinian Islamism; from toxic 19th century ‘Jewish Question’ rhetoric to the perversion of the Trotskyist tradition that allowed parts of the left to embrace antisemitism. It includes Howard Jacobson’s lecture of 22 October on antisemitism and it focuses on what was significant about this attack. There is discussion from Britain, Germany, Poland, and Norway, and a linguistic account of responses.

Responses to 7 October: Law and Society begins with a legal, and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Israel is genocidal; another reflects on the absence of an understanding of antisemitism in international legal discourse. There are reflections on experiences in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the twists that discourse there takes. Contributions draw on Judaism, feminism, and sociology to face what happened and to trace how Israelis were transported back to a quintessentially pre-Israel Jewish experience. Others survey reports of antisemitism around the globe in the wake of 7 October, including pieces about Britain and Germany.

Responses to 7 October: Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus. Contributions go back to Sartre and to debates of Marx’s time; another looks at the New Left forged in the civil rights movement, and shows how antisemitic responses to the 2023 violence were anticipated by some of the responses to the 1967 Arab League aggression. The feminist movement and ‘progressives’ more generally come under scrutiny, and there is analysis of antisemitism on campus after 7 October, showing how it is tolerated and protected there; including in archaeological attempts to deny that there is an ancient Jewish history in Israel.

As a set or individually, these important volumes will appeal to scholars, students and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies and the politics of Israel.

Table of Contents

Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse

Introduction

Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh

Editor’s Note

1. What has changed?

Anthony Julius

2. 7 October and the precariousness of being Jewish

David Hirsh

3. Introduction to Howard Jacobson’s chapter

David Hirsh

The text of Howard Jacobson's LCSCA Robert Fine Memorial Lecture, 22 October 2023

Howard Jacobson

4. The Ideology of Mass Murder

Jeffrey Herf

5. Echoes of the Past: Understanding Today's Antisemitism Through a Medieval Lens

Flora Cassen

6. Where are Jews at home?

Robin Douglas

7. Disenchanting Palestine: Moralism and Hyperpolitics in the aftermath of October 7th

Matthew Bolton

8. ‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the radical Left’s degenerate response to 7 October

Alan Johnson

9. October Reflections: Antisemitism, Antizionism and the Jewish Question

David Seymour

10. The German Press, Israel, and October 7, 2023: Initial research findings on reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Jonas Hessenauer and Lukas Uwira

11. The King’s “No”: Anti-Israelism and antisemitism in Norway after the 7 October massacre

Torkel Brekke

12. A View from the “Second World”: Holocaust and Colonialism in Contemporary Contexts of Eastern Europe

Anna Zawadzka

13. ‘It’s all about context’: Antisemitism in the discursive space post 7 October

Yaron Matras

Responses to 7 October: Law & Society

Foreword: 'My grandmother was killed in a pogrom. Then my daughter was, too'

Ilan Troen

Introduction

Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh

Editor’s Note

1. International Law and the Conflict in Gaza

Robbie Sabel

2. The Holocaust, Genocide, and October 7th

Philip Spencer

3. International Law Is Not Antisemitism-Proof

Ulf Haeussler

4. ‘But Israel claims to be a democracy!’ – Hypocrisy, double standards, and false equivalences

Eric Heinze

5. A Visit to Kibbutz Kfar Azza, November 28, 2023: Reflections on the Jewish Present and the Jewish Past

John Strawson

6. From the River to the Sea

Jeffrey Herf

7. Indecent Jewish theology, post October 7th: the G-d of the bathroom floor

Yehudis Fletcher

8. Collective Trauma and Resilience for the Jewish People in the Aftermath of 7th October

Leslie Morrison Gutman and Samuel D. Landau

9. After the Pogrom: A shift in the Jewish Configuration

Danny Trom and Bruno Karsenti

10. Global Leaders, Experts Must Reject Surging Antisemitism and Affirm Jews’ Equal Rights

Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

11. Antisemitic Reactions to October 7: The German Case

Julius Gruber, Bianca Loy, Daniel Poensgen

12. The worst month in my lifetime for UK antisemitism

Jack Omer-Jackaman

Responses to 7 October: Universities

Introduction

Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh

Editor’s Note

1. ‘A Tool to Advance Imperial Interests’: Leftist Self-Scrutiny and Israeli Wrongdoing

Eric Heinze

2. Thinking with and against Sartre about Reactions to the October 7th Pogrom

Chad Alan Goldberg

3. The rise and rise of the ‘Israel Question’

Daniel Chernilo

4. Jewish “Whiteness” and its Effects in the Aftermath of October 7

Linda Maizels

5. A History of Feminist Antisemitism

Kara Jesella

6. The Return of the Progressive Atrocity

Susie Linfield

7. Rain of Ashes Over Elite American Universities

Günther Jikeli

8. The Professors and the Pogrom: How the theory of ‘Zionist Settler Colonialism’ reframed the 7 October massacre as ‘Liberation’

Derek Spitz

9. October 7 and the Antisemitic War of Words

Cary Nelson

10. Ancient Historians Embrace Debunked Conspiracy Theories Denying that Jews are Indigenous to Israel

Brett Kaufman

11. From Eighteenth-Century Germany to Contemporary Academia: Combating the Conspiracy Theory of Antisemitism in Scholarship

Rebecca Cypess

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Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars and journals of radical intellectuals. It analyses how criticism of Israel can mushroom into antisemitism and it looks at struggles over how antisemitism is defined. It focuses on ways in which those who raise the issue of antisemitism are often accused of doing so in bad faith in an attempt to silence or smear. Hostility to Israel has become a signifier of identity, connected to opposition to imperialism, neo-liberalism and global capitalism; the 'community of the good' takes on toxic ways of imagining most living Jewish people.

Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars and journals of radical intellectuals. It analyses how criticism of Israel can mushroom into antisemitism and it looks at struggles over how antisemitism is defined. It focuses on ways in which those who raise the issue of antisemitism are often accused of doing so in bad faith in an attempt to silence or smear. Hostility to Israel has become a signifier of identity, connected to opposition to imperialism, neo-liberalism and global capitalism; the 'community of the good' takes on toxic ways of imagining most living Jewish people.

Reflecting current understanding of vocabulary as a multifaceted construct, this edited volume presents a collection of qualitative and quantitative studies which shed light on key theoretical concepts associated with learning and using vocabulary in second language contexts. Themes explored in the volume include the concept of partial vocabulary knowledge, the relationship between reading ability and vocabulary knowledge, the specialised vocabulary of high school science, morphological and orthographical components of word learning, the impact of word aspects on difficulty of learning, the nature of affix knowledge, and early speech development. The findings presented in the volume contribute to our growing and deepening appreciation of the contribution of vocabulary knowledge to learning and using language in second language contexts.

This volume reports on programs to revitalize and maintain languages of Thailand, with a particular focus on small enclave languages and school-based revitalization programs. Issues of language status, cultural heritage and identity are explored. The approximately 70 languages of Thailand belong to five language families: Tai (24), Austroasiatic (23), Austronesian (3), Sino-Tibetan (18) and Hmong-Mien (2). Currently, fifteen of these languages are classified as seriously endangered. This volume discusses language revitalization efforts involving six Mon-Khmer groups (Maniq, Chong, Nyah Kur, So, Mlabri, Lavue); four Thai-related groups (Phetburi western central Thai, Phutai, Lao, Nyaw); two Austronesian groups (Moklen, Patani Malay); and one Tibeto-Burman group (Bisu). The book provides a framework and model for future developments in revitalizing Thailand's indigenous languages.