In the postwar decades, Western media have assumed the role of a fourth force in addition to the executive, legislative, and judiciary forces in contemporary democracy. Increases in freedom of speech, press, as well as academic freedom have, however, led … [Read More]
Manfred Gerstenfeld
The 2013 FRA study and other data show that Muslims in the European Union account for a disproportionately large percentage of anti-Semitic incidents. The study found that in the European countries surveyed, 27 percent of incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, 51 … [Read More]
The next major step in deconstructing the makeup of the postmodern total war against Israel is to identify the main originators of current anti-Israelism and other types of anti-Semitism. The demonizers of Israel and the Jewish people come from many … [Read More]
A better understanding of the demonization process requires classifying the major forms of hatred promotion. Verbal demonization consists of two broad categories, false statements and distorted arguments. Pictorial demonization, of which cartoons are only one aspect, is another component of … [Read More]
A key characteristic of demonization is that when both very positive and extremely negative remarks are made about people, the negative ones usually stick more, even if they are far less numerous. Frequent repetition of the negative remarks enhances the … [Read More]
The history of European anti-Semitism goes back many centuries. Its impact, however, differed from country to country. Although its anti-Israeli mutations are particularly widespread, the hatred and incitement are so frag- mented that also major aspects of European classic anti-Semitism … [Read More]
One is that it denies the Jewish people the right to self-determination, delegitimizing Israel as a state and attributing the entire world’s misfortune to it. It ascribes a mix of evil qualities to the country; Cotler called this cultural anti-Semitism. … [Read More]
This book should have been written many years ago based on the wide knowledge already available at the time. For decades now, Israel has been the target of an all-out propaganda war by its multiple enemies. This major battle has … [Read More]
by José María Aznar Former President of the Government of Spain Israel is a little nation with a great people. Unfortunately it has been under constant attack since its birth back in 1948. It was first assailed by armies of … [Read More]
As time passes Holocaust history lends itself more to manipulations, despite the increase in historical information. This process will not stop, and this consideration has to be the starting point for the development of policies on how to preserve the … [Read More]