Geography, antisemitism and Zionism

Bibliographic Data

ID21321963
AuthorsCamila Bassi (0000-0002-8516-3938, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume108
Issue3
Pages130-133
Publication date2023-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7487 • E-ISSN: 2043-6564
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00167487.2023.2260220
OpenAlexW4387269130
LanguageEN
References cited11

This article challenges the representation of Zionism as the globalising hub of worldwide racist and colonial harm to humanity and the neglect of antisemitism as a contemporary form of racism. This article is not a challenge to the consensus understanding of the nation state of Israel as having racist and colonial characteristics; rather, it questions a mode of analysis that exceptionalises Israel’s ills to the point of exceptionally demanding the nation state’s dissolution, while negating Zionism’s origins as a lifeboat amid the Holocaust. In essence, this article seeks an anti-racist imagination that is informed by a holistic and universal comprehension of Zionism vis-à-vis racism, colonialism and nationalism, and that recognises the reality of contemporary anti-Jewish racism, including in the leftist milieux

Antisemitism · Archaeology · Colonialism · Humanity · Judaism · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science) · The Holocaust · Xenophobia · Zionism · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration