The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence Contributor(s): Kressel, Neil J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1597977020 ISBN-13: 9781597977029 Publisher: Potomac Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2012 |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
Dewey: 305.892 |
LCCN: 2012018888 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 9" L (1.15 lbs) 282 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Arab World - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil Kressel documents in this startling book, the Muslim world has resurrected in recent decades almost every diatribe that more than two millennia of European hostility produced against the Jews, and it has introduced many homegrown and novel modes of attack. Though it is impossible to determine precisely how many of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims hold anti-Jewish beliefs, Kressel finds that much bigotry comes from the highest levels of religious and political leadership. Compounding the problem, as Kressel demonstrates, many in the West refuse to recognize this issue. The growing epidemic of hate has been largely ignored, misunderstood, or downplayed, Kressel reveals, because of apathy, ignorance, confusion, bigotry, ideology, purported pragmatism, and misguided multiculturalism. Those who value human rights ignore antisemitism at their own risk, he cautions, noting that no antisemitic regime or movement has ever been otherwise reasonable or progressive. Kressel argues convincingly that Muslim antisemitism provides an acid test of the seriousness of Western liberalism. If the West fails to stem this growing tide, as now seems likely, future affairs will not go well for the true proponents of democracy. Kressel moves beyond sounding the alarm to explore the diverse religious, political, social, and psychological forces that have created and nurtured the new hostility to Jews in the Muslim world; he concludes with a bold and clear plan for what must be done to confront this hostility. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kressel, Neil J.: - NEIL J. KRESSEL, who holds a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, has taught at Harvard, New York University, and elsewhere. Currently, he directs the Honors Program in the Social Sciences at William Paterson University. In 2008 he was visiting associate professor at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of four previously published books, including Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror, Revised and Updated (Westview Press, 2002). He lives in northern New Jersey. |
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