ABSTRACT
In this critical reflection on the sources of the growth of antisemitism in Europe, Kenneth Waltzer argues that amidst growing economic crisis there has been an intensifying mobilisation of populist responses against immigrants and others and against established elites – in France, Hungary, Greece and elsewhere – which is sharpening antagonisms directed also against Jews. However, at least as important as sources of the new antisemitism in most European states have been the hard anti-colonial left, which attacks America and Israel as the cornerstones of Western imperialism, and alienated segments of the growing Muslim population, especially marginal youths. Waltzer maps these developments, traces their antisemitic impacts and explores strategies to counter the rising danger.
