Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: questa e' per Namib

(viene da uno sociologo di sinistra e assai critico verso Israele) 
 
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/antisemitism-eu-survey-jews
 
 
The release of the report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, "Discrimination and hate crime against Jews in EU member states: experiences and perceptions of antisemitism", should be the occasion for some careful reflection among anyone who cares about the fight against prejudice. The report, based on a survey of Jews in eight EU member states, offers the most comprehensive study ever undertaken on Jews' experiences of antisemitism in Europe.
 
The headline figures are worrying enough: 66% of respondents consider antisemitism to be a major problem and 76% said the situation had deteriorated over the last five years. In the 12 months preceding the survey, 21% had experienced an antisemitism incident. That only 2% of respondents had been physically assaulted does not take away the harm that verbal insults, threats and harassment can cause.
 
The extent of antisemitism varies markedly between countries. Jews in Hungary, Belgium and France report the highest levels, and nearly half have considered emigrating as a consequence. The situation is better in the UK, but still of concern: 19% had experienced some kind of antisemitic incident in the previous year.
 
Yet the report is likely to be greeted not with thoughtful deliberation, but with the polarised shrillness that tends to accompany debates about antisemitism today. Divisions over the Israel-Palestine conflict muddy the waters.
 
Many Jewish leaders in the UK and elsewhere have, since the peace process started to fall apart in 2000, argued that a "new antisemitism" was developing, in which hatred of Jews is thinly disguised as criticism of Israel. In 2006 for example, the previous UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks warned of a "tsunami of antisemitism" engulfing the world.
 
The more extreme proponents of this argument have asserted that Europe has become – in Bat Ye'Or's words – "Eurabia"; its leaders so craven in their capitulation to the Muslim minority that Europe is sliding into "dhimmitude", in which Israel and European Jewry are to be sacrificed.
 
So for those who have long warned of a resurgence of European antisemitism, the survey will provide vindication of their concerns.
 
Conversely, some of those that advocate solidarity with the Palestinians are likely to minimise or dismiss the survey as evidence of Jewish paranoia. A theme among some of those involved in pro-Palestinian activism in the last few years has been the forceful denial of antisemitic intent. Much effort has been spent on discrediting definitions of antisemitism, such as that of the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, that are seen to conflate legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism with attacks on Jews. So preoccupied have pro-Palestinian activists become with defending themselves against accusations of antisemitism, that it has led to – in the most generous interpretation – a lack of care in how their language might draw on antisemitic tropes. This has led some, such as the UK's Lady Tonge, to speak airily about an all-powerful "Israel lobby" while consistently denying any antisemitic intent.
 
Of course the "old" antisemitism from the white far right never went away entirely. Indeed, in Hungary and Greece in particular it is resurgent in the form of the fast-rising Jobbik and Golden Dawn parties. At least here there is consensus across the divide that there is a problem (and Hungarian Jews report some of the highest instances of antisemitic experiences in the survey). But beyond the far right, the extent of and seriousness of contemporary antisemitism in Europe is hotly contested.
 
We need to find ways to break the logjam that dominates discussion of antisemitism. If this is to happen, there are three things that everyone needs to come to terms with.
 
First, the fact that, according to its victims, a significant degree of antisemitism is perpetrated by European Muslims. Of the Jews in the survey who reported experiencing negative statements about the Jewish people in the previous 12 months, 51% identified the perpetrator as Muslim. Of those who reported serious cases of harassment in the past five years, 40% identified the perpetrator as "someone with Muslim extremist views".
 
Such figures should not be dismissed lightly. While Jewish fears about Muslim antisemitism may not always be in proportion to the extent of the threat, Muslim attacks on Jews are a far from trivial phenomenon. The March 2012 attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, in which three children and one adult were killed, was perpetrated by a French-Algerian Islamist and there are other less extreme instances of Muslim physical assaults on Jews in France and elsewhere.
 
We have to face facts: racism and antisemitism are not always perpetrated by the powerful on the powerless. European Muslims are themselves the victims of prejudice and Islamophobia. Antisemitism perpetrated by marginalised groups requires a rethinking of anti-racist practice. Muslim antisemitism in Europe is not the same as state-sponsored antisemitism and the antisemitism that comes from racial majorities.
 
Second, we need to recognise the substantial gap that has opened up between the perceptions of victims of antisemitism and those accused of antisemitism. Once, antisemites didn't hide their hatred of Jews. Today, many of those who are accused of antisemitism are outraged at the accusation.
 
If there is to be any way out of this impasse it requires a sombre recognition that the vast majority of both sides are speaking in good faith: those denying that they are antisemitic genuinely believe it, those accusing others of antisemitism genuinely feel themselves to be victims of antisemitism. No one claim necessarily trumps the other.
 
Third, we need to come to terms with the fact that the perceptions of antisemitism among Jews are not the same as political mobilisation against antisemitism. Jewish leaders, organisations and opinion formers are vocal in their complaints of antisemitism. It's only natural that political claims of this kind will be subject to contestation. What gets lost in the controversy is the fact that real Jews feel vulnerable. They aren't experiencing antisemitism out of a cynical attempt to defend Israel – they feel it.
 
This is the value of the Fundamental Rights Agency survey. It reminds us that antisemitism affects Jews. Responding to antisemitism is much more complex and difficult than it once was. But the starting point has to be with Jews, just as any response to racism has to start with concern for its victims.

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