Abstract

This paper argues that antizionism must be understood, like the antisemitism that came before it, as an ideology. Here I draw upon Arendt’s definition of ideology as a radical distortion of social and political relations. I draw also upon Fine and Spencer’s understanding of the Jewish question as the antisemitic reaction to Jewish emancipation. I argue that antizionism is a reconfiguration of that reaction in the context of Jews’ modern emancipation in the form of national self-determination in the State of Israel. While that modern reaction, antizionism, displays both continuity and discontinuity with the antisemitism that came before it, it remains a manifestation of the Jewish question.

Publication Type:	Article
Publisher Keywords:	Jewish question, Ideology, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Antizionism, Hannah Arendt
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BM Judaism
Departments:	The City Law School > Academic Programmes

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