Anti-Semitic Discourse in Great Britain

CST has produced a Report on Anti-Semitic Discourse  in the UK that you can download here:

http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/Antisemitic%20Discourse%20Report%202008.pdf.

 

The report paints a depressing picture that is already all too familiar to many of us: "Zionist" used as a euphemism for Jew, the baby-eating Sharon cartoon, which has seen a rebirth.recently, Holocaust Denial on the Web and on TV and all the rest. The report includes little statistical analysis, so it is not clear if the problem is getting worse or improviing. 

 

The CST report spends much of its attention on talkbacks at Web sites. It is not clear what impact these talkbacks have and how many people read them.  Nonetheless, this is a valuable survey because of its in depth discussion of definitional problems, strategies of masked anti-semitism and some of the fairly shocking materials it shows us.l

 

Ami Isseroff