The Palestinian Knot

The ‘New Anti-Semitism’, Islamophobia and the Question of Postcolonial Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID8038176
AuthorsMonika Bobako (0000-0001-8509-8139, Adam Mickiewicz University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume35
Issue3
Pages99-120
Publication date2017-05-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276417708859
OpenAlexW2612454224
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited16

In the course of 20th-century European history Jews and Arabs, as well as Jews and Muslims, were put in the position of a ‘civilizational’ conflict that is not only political but also quasi-metaphysical. This article examines an impact of the conflict on the attitudes towards anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and considers Islamophobic implications of the ‘new anti-Semitism’ discourse. A thesis of the text is that both the struggle against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and the one against the mechanism creating, in certain circumstances, a kind of negative feedback loop between them requires not only opposing the anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim prejudices, but also a deep, critical reconsideration of the concepts of Europeanness that lie at their foundation. The author suggests that a good starting point for this reconsideration might be the postcolonial reading of the Jewish intellectual tradition, especially the one focusing on the figure of the Mizrahi Jew

Antisemitism · Islamophobia · Judaism · Knot (papermaking · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · German legal, social, and political studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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