Author: Manfred Gerstenfeld / Political Geography: Israel

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 06-2020
Content Type:: Commentary and Analysis
Institution:: The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
Abstract:: An important tool in understanding the dynamics of antisemitism is the identification of moments when its boundaries shift. This occurred with the Trump Peace Plan, the antisemitism crisis in the British Labour party, the UN’s first World Conference against Racism, the huge outburst of antisemitism in France in 2000, and the German welcome policy for refugees and asylum seekers.
Topic:: Politics, Ideology, Peace, Anti-Semitism, and Donald Trump
Political Geography:: Europe, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and United States of America

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 03-2020
Content Type:: Commentary and Analysis
Institution:: The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
Abstract:: A number of conspiracy theories have quickly emerged linking Jews and Israel to the coronavirus pandemic. These are new mutations of historical strains of antisemitic conspiracy theories, including the “poisoning of gentiles” motif and the accusation that the Jews want to control the world. These theories are all linked to the most popular antisemitic conspiracy theory of all, the modern mutation of the ancient blood libel that claims that Israel behaves like the Nazis and has Nazi-esque intentions toward the Palestinians.
Topic:: History, Judaism, Anti-Semitism, and COVID-19
Political Geography:: Israel and Palestine

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 12-2019
Content Type:: Commentary and Analysis
Institution:: The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
Abstract:: If antisemitism is to be fought effectively, three priorities have to be set. First, the Israeli government should establish an anti-propaganda agency. Second, an effort must be made to achieve a broad recognition that antisemitism is an ancient and integral element of Western culture. Third, there should be a consistent exposure of Jewish masochists who claim that Israel alone has to be perfect while others do not.
Topic:: Human Rights, Judaism, and Anti-Semitism
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 10-2019
Content Type:: Commentary and Analysis
Institution:: The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
Abstract:: Berlin has surpassed Malmö as Europe’s antisemitism capital, with a wide variety of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes on display. They include dozens of cases of physical aggression against Jews, including rabbis. Jewish pupils have had to leave public schools. Thirty-five percent of Berliners view Israelis as analogous to Nazis. An Al-Quds Day march takes place annually that calls for the destruction of Israel. Both the municipality and the federal government are two-faced about the problem of antisemitism.
Topic:: Politics, Judaism, Ideology, and Anti-Semitism
Political Geography:: Europe, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and Germany

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 04-2002
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: The moral aspects of Western attitudes toward the Jews and the Holocaust since World War II have not yet been analyzed systematically. However, the current campaign of hatred against Israel and the Jewish people — unprecedented since the end of the war — recalls many elements of the prewar decades. Yet it is too easy to generalize and describe this as one more outburst of the ancient illness of anti-Semitism.
Topic:: Security, Religion, and War
Political Geography:: Europe, Middle East, Israel, and Arab Countries

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 11-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: In Israel, ongoing contingency planning in the military, political, economic, and information fields is particularly essential now, especially in light of the structural global changes that may occur after the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Such evaluations are done elsewhere for other reasons, such as by stock market analysts, and for those who draw accurate operating conclusions the rewards are very significant. In politics, it is even more difficult to imagine and rank potential shifts. Those who continually train themselves intellectually, however, may do better than others, both in defining policies and in suggesting rapid reactions to the unforeseen.
Topic:: Security and Religion
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Arabia

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 03-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: After seven years of the peace process, catastrophic remarks about the end of the State of Israel are much more frequent than they were before the Oslo agreements. Judaism has a long tradition of religious apocalyptic thought; in the secular end-of-days fantasies of the last few months, however, no salvation is offered the community.
Topic:: Security and Religion
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Arabia

Author:: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publication Date:: 12-2000
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: Why is it that Israel's per capita GNP still lags substantially behind that of the leading countries of the world? Why is it likely to take decades for the Israeli economy to catch up? This is while the Israeli papers are full of news about very promising high-tech start-ups, and we even hear occasionally about payments of billions of dollars by major foreign firms to acquire Israeli businesses which were founded a few years ago and have at most several hundred employees.
Topic:: Security, Economics, and Religion
Political Geography:: Middle East and Israel

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