Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. He is the author of The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (Pluto, 2012) and editor of Do I Belong? (Pluto, 2017).

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Introduction

1. Varieties of Confusion in Understandings of Antisemitism

2. The Use and Abuse of Antisemitic Stereotypes and Tropes

3. Motivated by Antisemitism? Challenges to Zionism 1975-1989

4. 'New Antisemitism': Competing Narratives and the Consequences of Politicisation

5. The Development of Institutions Combatting Antisemitism 1970s-2000

6. The Turning Point: 'New Antisemitism' and the New Millennium

7. The Codification of 'New Antisemitism': The EUMC 'Working Definition'

8. Responding to 'New Antisemitism': a Transnational Field of Racial Governance

9. The Redefinition Project and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' Exposed

10. Human Rights: The 'Mask Under Which the Teaching of Antisemitic Contempt for Israel is Carried Out'

11. Geopolitics, Israel and the Authentication of 'New Antisemitism'

12. 'War' Discourse and its Limitations

13. 'Jewish Power', Medical Analogies and 'Eradication' Discourse

14. Apocalypticism: Defining the Discourse, Writing the Headlines and Generating Moral Panics

15. Against Typological Thinking: Summary and Conclusions

Appendix: The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Notes

Index