Talk:Israel Shahak

ottolenghi

Emanuele Ottolenghi argued that Jews such as Prof. Israel Shahak act as enablers for anti-Semites, because the rhetoric of anti-semitic Jews plays a "crucial role... in excusing, condoning, and — in effect — abetting anti-Semitism." In his opinion, "Anti-Semites rely on Jews to confirm their prejudice: If Jews recur to such language, and advocate such policies, how can anyone be accused of anti-Semitism, for making the same arguments?... The mechanism through which an anti-Semitic accusation becomes respectable once a Jew endorses it is not limited to Israel's new historians.... Israel Shahak made the comparison between Israel and Nazism respectable — all the while describing Judaism according to the medieval canons of the blood libel".

The source is lacking. It happens to be {{Emanuele Ottolenghi}} The War of the Jews The National Review 20 September 2006

I've removed it because the Ottolenghi is writing about what the aforementioned book by Paul Bogdanor and Edward Alexander >(eds) The Jewish Divide over Israel: Accusers and Defenders.

Anyone who wants to restore it should rewrite what we have. The source mentions Shahak, George Steiner, Tanya Reinhart, Tony Judt, Avi Shlaim, Seymour Hersh, Daniel Boyarin

and then goes on

But two main themes emerge that deserve scrutiny. The first is the claim, made by so many Jewish intellectuals, to be the authentic expression of Judaism’s prophetic tradition in their crusade against Israel and Zionism. And the second is the crucial role their rhetoric plays in excusing, condoning, and — in effect — abetting anti-Semitism. --Even as their distance from Jewish values demonstrates that they are not legitimate heirs of the Jewish prophets, their role in providing cover for anti-Semitism cannot be dismissed or underestimated. The only Jew anti-Semites can tolerate in their midst is a Jew who has abandoned all the vestiges of Judaism and shows no traces of identification with the Jewish people. Promoting the abandonment of Judaism has always been high on the agenda of Jew-haters: From conversion to assimilation, no version of anti-Jewish sentiment has ever left the Jews with the option of defining their own identity on their own terms. If they wanted to survive, they had to accept what the outside world wanted them to be. And even as our age celebrates cultural diversity and religious freedom, the Jews are nonetheless barred from defining themselves in national terms. Some Jewish intellectuals, therefore, embrace anti-Zionism in order to become accepted in their liberal and progressive circles, where hatred for Israel is most rampant.

I may do this myself, if time permits.Nishidani (talk) 20:23, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

References

Add anti-judaism as a category for this article

Add-Anti Judaism as a category for this article. His book Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years is a quintessential example of Anti-Judaism Zifrs69 (talk) 21:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:14, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Sources

The reference "Hitchens, Christopher (23 July 2001). "Israel Shahak, 1933-2001". The Nation", marked "[permanent dead link]", can be found at https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/israel-shahak-1933-2001/ RZiman (talk) 18:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)