Archivo etiqueta «Antisemitismo»
Por Edmond Amran el Maleh (Safi, 1917), novelista y ensayista marroquí. Es autor de Recorrido inmóvil (EL PAÍS, 19/04/06):
Bajo el título de Memoria rota de los judíos del norte de Marruecos (EL PAÍS, 29-03-06) y con motivo del cincuentenario de la independencia de Marruecos, la escritora Esther Bendahán realiza un análisis pretendidamente histórico sobre los judíos del norte de Marruecos. Sigamos su recorrido, que nos conduce a un juicio inapelable, resumido en esta fórmula lapidaria: “De los judíos que allí vivieron durante siglos, sólo queda la memoria rota”. He aquí una extraña patología de la memoria que deja perplejo. … Seguir leyendo
By Tony Judt, the director of the Remarque Institute at New York University and the author of “Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19/04/06):
IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled “The Israel Lobby.” The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) who posted a longer (83-page) version of their text on the Web site of Harvard’s Kennedy School.
As they must have anticipated, the essay has run into a firestorm of … Seguir leyendo
By Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/04/06):
Academic papers posted on a Harvard Web site don’t normally attract enthusiastic praise from prominent white supremacists. But John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” has won David Duke’s endorsement as “a modern Declaration of American Independence” and a vindication of the ex-Klansman’s earlier work, presumably including his pathbreaking book, “Jewish Supremacism.”
Walt and Mearsheimer contend that American national security dictates distancing ourselves from the state of Israel; that U.S. support for Israel has led … Seguir leyendo
Esther Bendahán es escritora, autora de Déjalo, ya volveremos. (EL PAÍS, 29/03/06):
Este año se celebra el cincuentenario de la independencia de Marruecos del Protectorado francés y español. Pero la presencia española y francesa no fue la única en disminuir hasta casi desaparecer el 3 de marzo de 1956; también, después de siglos, los judíos marroquíes, de manera gradual pero continua, abandonaron sus ciudades, se exiliaron, para iniciar, sin lamentos ni grandes construcciones dramáticas, su vida en países como Israel, España y Francia. Recientemente, unas trescientas personas, custodiadas por fuerzas de la Policía y el Ejército, visitaron lo único que … Seguir leyendo
By Mark Lawson (THE GUARDIAN, 24/03/06):
The aim of religion is revelation, and this week I have had two God-related shocks. On Sunday a list of Britain’s most influential Roman Catholics included me at 65. This was something of a surprise to me – as for 20 years or so my relationship with the faith has been of a bleak and quarrelsome Graham Greene kind – but not as shocking as it was to the person who emailed to ask how, as a well-known Jew, I could chart in the Vatican hit list at all.
This confusion proved to have … Seguir leyendo
Por Michel Wieviorka, profesor de la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales de París. Traducción: José María Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 20/03/06):
Numerosos países distinguen la jornada de mañana martes mediante un compromiso oficial en la lucha contra el racismo. ¿En qué estadio nos encontramos, con ocasión de esta fecha simbólica, en la cuestión del racismo y el antisemitismo, dos fenómenos que, como todo el mundo puede comprobar, han cobrado renovado impulso -bajo distintas formas- en toda Europa?
El incremento del racismo se ha hecho notar en primer lugar en el Reino Unido. Desde un primer … Seguir leyendo
Por Ralf Dahrendorf, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores, ex comisario europeo de Alemania y ex rector de la London School of Economics. Traducción: C. Manzano (LA VANGUARDIA, 19/03/06):
Estos son tiempos violentos. Algunos creen que estamos experimentando un nuevo tipo de conflicto: guerra de culturas, como las que enfrentan a los musulmanes suníes y chiíes o a los grupos tribales de África y Asia o, de hecho, a los islamistas y los occidentales. Sin embargo, las razones más profundas para algunos de esos conflictos pueden muy bien ser más tradicionales.
La pertenencia a un grupo cultural … Seguir leyendo
By John Mann, a Labour MP for Bassetlaw (THE GUARDIAN, 17/03/06):
As chair of the all party parliamentary group against anti-semitism, I am delighted to see a group of cross-party MPs taking the time to examine anti-semitism in Britain.
Having attended only one of the sessions of this inquiry, David Clark rushed into print to judge an inquiry which is still proceeding and whose evidence he has not read (Accusations of anti-semitic chic are poisonous intellectual thuggery, March 6).
It is clear from evidence presented to the inquiry that anti-semitism has not gone away and that its nature is … Seguir leyendo
By Jeffrey Goldberg, a staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of the forthcoming “Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/03/06):
Three years ago, while visiting Tehran, I was introduced to a charmless man named Muhammad Ali Samadi, who, I was told, would parse for me the Iranian theocracy’s peculiar understanding of Judaism and Zionism. Mr. Samadi said that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, held no brief for anti-Semitism. Then, a moment later, he deployed an epidemiological metaphor to explain the role of Jews in history. “There … Seguir leyendo
Por Bernard Lewis, historiador británico y profesor Cleveland E. Dodge de Estudios de Oriente Medio de la Universidad de Princeton (GEES, 09/03/06):
Existe un tópico bastante manido que todos hemos escuchado antes muchas veces: criticar las acciones y políticas del estado de Israel o las doctrinas del Sionismo es perfectamente legítimo sin estar motivado necesariamente por el antisemitismo. El hecho de que esto haya sido repetido ad nauseam no minimiza su verdad. No sólo lo acepto, sino que incluso lo llevaría un paso más allá con otra formulación que tal vez provoque sorpresa, por no decir asombro: es perfectamente posible odiar y hasta perseguir a los judíos sin ser antisemita necesariamente [...]
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By David Clark, a former Labour government adviser (THE GUARDIAN, 06/03/06):
If the past few weeks have demonstrated anything, it is the frequency with which allegations of anti-semitism surface in modern political debate. Ken Livingstone, the Church of England and the Guardian (over articles comparing Israel and apartheid) are the most recent to find themselves in the firing line. This is the backdrop against which an unofficial parliamentary inquiry on anti-semitism under former Foreign Office minister Denis McShane concludes its hearings in Westminster today.
A sober reflection on the nature of the problem is badly needed to take the … Seguir leyendo
By Anne Applebaum (THE WASHINGTON POST, 01/03/06):
It was unusual — tape recorders not being de rigueur in Britain — but this time there was a transcript of what was said. Just as unusual: It all began politely. The journalist, Oliver Finegold of the Evening Standard, asked Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, “How did tonight go?” Not so unusually, the mayor, who was emerging from a reception, responded with an insult: “What did you do before? Were you a German war criminal?”
“No, I’m Jewish, I wasn’t a German war criminal and actually I’m quite offended by that. So, … Seguir leyendo
By Ken Livingston, mayor of London (THE GUARDIAN, 01/03/06):
At least one thing can be said about my possible suspension from office, which was put on hold by the high court yesterday: people from across the political spectrum have come to the defence of the basic democratic principle that those elected by the people should only be removed by the voters. Last week, an adjudication tribunal found that some of my comments to an Evening Standard journalist had been “unnecessarily insensitive” and “offensive”. But those are not grounds for overturning the decision of the voters of London. As far … Seguir leyendo
By Tony Bayfield. Rabbi Tony Bayfield is the head of the Movement for Reform Judaism in Britain and a co-president of the Council of Christians and Jews (THE GUARDIAN, 28/02/06):
We Jews are a thundering nuisance. Our persistence has always been a problem for Christianity, but we’ve really excelled ourselves over the last 60 years. Though Auschwitz was liberated back in 1944, a Christian still can’t speak to a Jew without having the Holocaust waved reproachfully in their face. Criticise the state of Israel and the poor innocent is accused of anti-semitism. And Israel itself, positioned as it is … Seguir leyendo
By Caitlin Moran (THE TIMES, 27/02/06):
You know what? I don’t think I believe in freedom of speech. This isn’t, you understand, a subject I’ve considered at any great length. No gigantic research has gone on here. I’m speaking almost entirely as an idiot. Indeed, I’ll go farther. I’m convinced there are good reasons why we should all be allowed to say whatever we want — which I shall feel hugely ashamed about when I’m subsequently chastised. I shall surely regret just gobbing off without a second’s thought on a very serious subject. But then, that’s the point. I haven’t … Seguir leyendo