Editing Antisemitism (section)

===New antisemitism===
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[[Image:Protests Edinburgh 10 1 2009 5.JPG|right|thumb|A sign held at a protest in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, January 2009]]
Starting in the 1990s, some scholars have advanced the concept of [[new antisemitism]], coming simultaneously from the [[Left-wing politics|left]], the [[Right-wing politics|right]], and [[Islamism|radical Islam]], which tends to focus on opposition to the creation of a Jewish homeland in the [[State of Israel]],<ref name="New-AS-List">{{bulleted list|
|{{cite book |last=Chesler |first=Phyllis |author-link=Phyllis Chesler |title=The New Antisemitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It |publisher=Jossey-Bass |date=2003 |pages=158–159, 181}}
|{{cite web |last=Kinsella |first=Warren |author-link=Warren Kinsella |url=http://warrenkinsella.com/oldsite/old/words_extremism_nas.htm |title=The New antisemitism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729171012/http://warrenkinsella.com/oldsite/old/words_extremism_nas.htm |archive-date=29 July 2012 |access-date=5 March 2006}}
|{{cite news |last=Doward |first=Jamie |date=8 August 2004 |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1278580,00.html |title=Jews predict record level of hate attacks: Militant Islamic media accused of stirring up new wave of antisemitism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115132604/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1278580,00.html |archive-date=15 January 2008 |work=[[The Observer]]}}
|{{cite book |last=Endelman |first=Todd M. |author-link=Todd Endelman |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lmym8zUBCKcC&pg=PA65 |chapter=Antisemitism in Western Europe Today |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117161939/https://books.google.com/books?id=Lmym8zUBCKcC&pg=PA65 |archive-date=17 November 2022 |title=Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] |date=2005 |pages=65–79 |isbn=978-0-8020-3931-6}}
|{{cite book |last=Matas |first=David |author-link=David Matas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYR7SqcMe9gC&pg=PA30 |title=Aftershock: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117161942/https://books.google.com/books?id=DYR7SqcMe9gC&pg=PA30 |archive-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=Dundurn Press |date=2005 |pages=30–31 |isbn=978-1-55002-553-8}}
|{{cite book |last=Wistrich |first=Robert S. |author-link=Robert S. Wistrich |title=From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel |series=Studies in Antisemitism |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |date=2012}}{{pn|date=February 2025}}
}}</ref> and they argue that the language of [[anti-Zionism]] and [[criticism of Israel]] are used to attack Jews more broadly. In this view, the proponents of the new concept believe that criticisms of Israel and [[Zionism]] are often disproportionate in degree and unique in kind, and they attribute this to antisemitism.<ref name=":0">[https://web.archive.org/web/20031205153139/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=2791 "Antiglobalism's Jewish Problem"] in [[Ron Rosenbaum|Rosenbaum, Ron]] (ed.). ''Those who forget the past: The Question of Anti-Semitism'', [[Random House]] 2004, p.&nbsp;272.</ref>

Jewish scholar [[Gustavo Perednik]] posited in 2004 that anti-Zionism in itself represents a form of discrimination against Jews, in that it singles out Jewish national aspirations as an illegitimate and racist endeavor, and "proposes actions that would result in the death of millions of Jews".<ref name=":0" /> Proponents of this theory assert that the new antisemitism deploys traditional antisemitic motifs, including older motifs such as the [[blood libel]].<ref name="New-AS-List"/>

Critics of the concept view it as trivializing the meaning of antisemitism, and as [[Weaponization of antisemitism|exploiting antisemitism in order to silence debate]] and to deflect attention from legitimate criticism of the State of Israel, and, by associating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, misusing it to taint anyone opposed to Israeli actions and policies.<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Brian Klug |last=Klug |first=Brian |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040202&s=klug |title=The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090701082702/http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040202&s=klug |archive-date=1 July 2009 |work=[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]] |date=15 January 2004 |access-date=9 January 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author-link=Michael Lerner (rabbi) |last=Lerner |first=Michael |url=http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/020207LERNER.shtml |title=There Is No New Anti-Semitism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126094118/http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/020207LERNER.shtml |archive-date=26 January 2011 |date=5 February 2007 |access-date=6 February 2007}}</ref>