September 8, 2010



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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Decoding the Relationship

The relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism has been endlessly debated. Below, two experts on the subject offer a framework for thinking about this issue. In an excerpt from his book Antisemitism Today, Kenneth S. Stern examines how the logic of anti-Zionism frequently reflects the prejudices of antisemitism. And in an ...

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Jewish Anti-Zionism Unravelled: Questioning Antisemitism (Part 2)

THE FIRST PART OF this essay ended with a distinction between the Israeli and Diaspora Jewish anti-Zionist perspectives. The writings of Akiva Orr and Uri Davis may be read as representative of the former perspective, and the writings of Jacqueline Rose as representative of the latter perspective. There are, of course, others who could ...

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Our Mission

Z Word is an online journal dedicated to exploring the moral, philosophical, political and historical issues arising from the conflicts in the Middle East, particularly - although not exclusively - as they relate to the issues of Zionism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism. In recent years the public debate on issues relating to Zionism has ...

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When ‘Zionist’ Meant ‘Jew’: Revisiting the 1968 Events in Poland

THE 1968 STATE SPONSORED anti-Zionist campaign in Poland demonstrates how easily anti-Zionist rhetoric slips into open antisemitism. It is also a striking example of how a supposedly internationalist anti-imperialist movement is prone to hateful manipulation that, in fact, has very little to do with the Middle East. The language ...

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On Zionism

The term "Zionism" draws more attention (and more fire) in our own time than when the movement first emerged, in Europe, at the end of the nineteenth century. This section looks at the key issues underlying the Z Word. Z Word editor Ben Cohen examines the opprobrium which has ...

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Conspiracies and Colonialism

Back in February 1984, A.Q. Khan, the self-styled father of Pakistan's nuclear program, made a phone call to the editor of a major Pakistani newspaper. Khan had a simple message to convey. "The Islamic bomb," he told the editor, "is a figment of the Zionist mind." Of course, the ...

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Islamism Against Zionism: Muslim Identity and the Middle East Conflict

FOR THE CASUAL OBSERVER looking to capture Islamist attitudes towards Zionism and Israel, there are few spectacles better than Al Quds Day. Instituted by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, and held on the last Friday during the month of Ramadan, the ...

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