Overview

Never since the end of World War II have anti-Jewish sentiments gained such currency in France among so many different social groups. Never have these sentiments been so publicly expressed and met so little intellectual and political resistance as they have since the year 2000. As the number of anti-Jewish incidents escalates, the anti-racist demonstrations that ordinarily would respond to them are nowhere in sight. Important questions therefore need to be put now about the shockingly common acceptance of anti-Semitic attitudes and behavior. In this important book, Mr. Taguieff surveys the landscape of contemporary anti-Semitism, describing its leading figures, the role of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, the Islamic influence in promoting anti-Zionism, and the blindness, complacency, or connivance of various institutions, groups, and individuals. The new wave of anti-Semitism spreading around the world, the author shows, is based on a polemical and fanciful amalgam of Jews, Israelis, and ""Zionists"" as representatives of an evil power. In the eyes of the new anti-Jews, the world's ills can be explained by Israel's existence. The chief accusation, purveyed especially by international Islamic circles and the heirs to Third Worldism, is that ""Zionism,"" far from being a respectable nationalism like that of the Palestinians, is actually a form of colonialism, imperialism, and racism. The old European anti-Semitism, Mr. Taguieff notes, was a particular kind of racism, directed against Jews. The new worldwide anti-Semitism seeks to turn the charge of racism against the Jews.

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Remarkable.--Manfred Gerstenfeld Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs

This urgently awaited study of the rise of antisemitism in Europe must be read by all those who wish to denounce and fight its poisonous effects. -- Elie Wiesel, Andrew W. Mellon, Professor in the Humanities, Boston University Rising From The Muck is an important and terrifying book, about Judeophobia, in France, in Europe, and spreading globally. In readable language Pierre-Andre Taguieff pushes us to ask that old question 'Can it happen here?'-and what can we do to stop it. -- Ben Wattenberg, American Enterprise Institute ...Pierre-Andre Taguieff shows how rapidly and thoroughly old-style racist prejudice against all Jews has taken on a new life. Who could have imagined how necessary and timely it is to restate basic humanist values, as this book does. -- David Pryce-Jones Highly readable, clarifies the troubling situation with admirable precision. Taguieff is the author of several well-regarded books on nationalism and racism. In Rising from the Much he brings all of his impressive intellectual powers to bear on exposing an uncomfortable truth most Europeans are aware of. Although his is not the first study to exlpore the new anti-Semitism, it is the best informaed and most congently argued. Taguieff's detailed exposure of the political culture that has given rise to Judeophobia is therefore indespensable. The New Leader This impressively written and presented treatise...is a frightening revelation of new trends and the informational resource to go to... Library Bookwatch ...Deserves special attention... Taguieff brings to the subject far more intellectual rigor than one usually finds... Moment Magazine Recommended. Library Journal ...Outshines [its] predecessors...[A] supple analysis. The Wilson Quarterly The essays that form the bulk of the book provide lengthy examples and measured analysis... Virginia Quarterly Review An important book...[Taguieff] makes a strong and disturbing case... Highly recommended. CHOICE Mr. Taguieff's book penetrates beneath the surface of official rhetoric. -- Fred Siegel New York Sun Remarkable. -- Manfred Gerstenfeld Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs This impressive written and presented treatise...is a frightening revelation of new trends... Library Bookwatch

This urgently awaited study of the rise of antisemitism in Europe must be read by all those who wish to denounce and fight its poisonous effects. -- Elie Wiesel Rising From The Muck is an important and terrifying book, about Judeophobia, in France, in Europe, and spreading globally. In readable language Pierre-Andre Taguieff pushes us to ask that old question 'Can it happen here?'-and what can we do to stop it. -- Ben Wattenberg, American Enterprise Institute ...Pierre-Andre Taguieff shows how rapidly and thoroughly old-style racist prejudice against all Jews has taken on a new life. Who could have imagined how necessary and timely it is to restate basic humanist values, as this book does. -- David Pryce-Jones Highly readable, clarifies the troubling situation with admirable precision. Taguieff is the author of several well-regarded books on nationalism and racism. In Rising from the Much he brings all of his impressive intellectual powers to bear on exposing an uncomfortable truth most Europeans are aware of. Although his is not the first study to exlpore the new anti-Semitism, it is the best informaed and most congently argued. Taguieff's detailed exposure of the political culture that has given rise to Judeophobia is therefore indespensable. The New Leader This impressively written and presented treatise...is a frightening revelation of new trends and the informational resource to go to... Library Bookwatch ...Deserves special attention... Taguieff brings to the subject far more intellectual rigor than one usually finds... Moment Magazine Recommended. Library Journal ...Outshines [its] predecessors...[A] supple analysis. The Wilson Quarterly The essays that form the bulk of the book provide lengthy examples and measured analysis... Virginia Quarterly Review An important book...[Taguieff] makes a strong and disturbing case... Highly recommended. CHOICE Mr. Taguieff's book penetrates beneath the surface of official rhetoric. -- Fred Siegel New York Sun Remarkable. -- Manfred Gerstenfeld Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs This impressive written and presented treatise...is a frightening revelation of new trends... Library Bookwatch

Rising From The Muck is an important and terrifying book, about Judeophobia, in France, in Europe, and spreading globally. In readable language Pierre-Andre Taguieff pushes us to ask that old question 'Can it happen here?' and what can we do to stop it.--Wattenberg, Ben

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Pierre-André Taguieff, a philosopher, political scientist, and historian of ideas, is a research director at France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and teaches at the Political Studies Institute in Paris. He has also written Nationalisms in Perspective, On Progress, The Eclipse of the Future, Color and Blood, The Face of Racism, and The Force of Prejudice.

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