Transformations in French antisemitism

Nonna Mayer (1)

1 CEVIPOF - Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The increase in the number of anti-Semitic acts since the start of the Second Intifada has sparked off a broad debate on the return of anti-Semitism in France. This article focuses on the question whether this anti-Semitism is still based on the alleged superiority of the Aryan race as in the time of Nazism, or if it represents the birth of a “new Judeophobia” that is more based on anti-Zionism and the polemical mixing of “Jews,” “Israelis,” and “Zionists.” One supposed effect of this transformation is that anti-Semitism is in the process of changing camps and migrating from the extreme right to the extreme left of the political arena, to the “altermondialistes,” the communists, and the “neo-Trotskyists.”

Keywords: French antisemitism; Anti-semitic acts; Anti-zionism; French antisemitism

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Nonna Mayer. Transformations in French antisemitism. Journal für Konflikt-und Gewaltforschung, 2005, 7 (2), pp.91 - 104. ⟨10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.20⟩. ⟨hal-03471809⟩