Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Representation

Acknowledgements Series Editor's Preface Foreword Introduction The Necessity of Studying Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Examining Responses to Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition and Everyday Talk Case Studies: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism among Iranians and British Pakistani Muslims The Islamic Republic of Iran The Pakistani Muslim community in Britain Overview of the Book II Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Antisemitism: Continuities and Discontinuities Introduction Antisemitism: Conceptual Issues Antisemitism across Time, Space and Medium Antisemitism in antiquity Christendom The Middle Ages Antisemitism after the Enlightenment The destructive action orientation of modern antisemitism Antisemitism in the Islamic world Holocaust denial Understanding Antisemitism: Theory and Research Overview Israel and the Emergence of Anti-Zionism and “New Antisemitism”Introduction The Birth of Israel and the Israeli-Arab Conflict The Israeli-Arab conflict The Israeli-Palestinian conflict Anti-Zionist Representations Anti-Zionism and its Action Orientation Empirical Research into Anti-Zionism Overview A Social Psychological Framework for Examining Representation, Cognition and Everyday Talk Introduction Social Representations Theory Delegitimising and Dehumanising Representations Identity Process Theory Intergroup Threat Theory Overview III Textual and Visual Representations of Jews and the Jewish State Representing the Jewish State in the Iranian Press1 Introduction Delegitimiting the Jewish State Constructing Israel as a Threat Constructing National Agency in Global Anti-Zionism Overview Visualising the Holocaust: Iran's Holocaust Cartoon Contest1 Introduction Figure 6.1 Contributors to the 2006 International Holocaust Cartoon Competition Constructing the “Evil Jew” and “Bloodthirsty Israel”Palestinian Suffering as the “Real” Holocaust Nazi-Zionism as an International Conspiracy Overview IV Thinking and Talking about Jews and the Jewish State “Death to Israel”: Perceptions of Israel and Jews among Iranian Muslims Introduction Anti-Zionism and Iranian National Identity Hardliners and the centrality of anti-Zionism Reformists and the peripherality of anti-Zionism Positioning Jews in relation to the Ingroup Creating and Elaborating Antisemitic Social Representations Anti-Zionism and Holocaust Revisionism Overview “I'm not Antisemitic but … ”: Perceptions of Israel and Jews among British Pakistani Muslims Introduction “Zionism is Evil”: Making Sense of Zionism Defeating the State of Israel Deflecting Antisemitism through Compartmentalisation Processes Carving a Space in the Islamic Ummah Overview V Responding to Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Re-Visiting Siege Mentality: Israeli Responses to Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism1 Introduction Perceived Outgroup Hostility and the Implications for Identity Muslim Anti-Zionism as a Continuation of Antisemitism Holocaust Denial, Siege and Identity The centrality of the Holocaust in security perceptions The threat of Holocaust denial Coping with Antisemitism: Re-Establishing Belonging and Self-Esteem Overview British Jews: Making Sense of Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Introduction Assimilating and Accommodating Jewishness and Israel in the Self-Concept Setting the Boundaries of Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Coping with Threatened Identity: Re-Constructing Jewishness and Israel Individual and interpersonal strategies for coping with threat Joining pressure groups for defending Israel/Zionism Overview Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Putting the Pieces Together Some Implications