| 词条 | Antony Lerman |
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Lerman served on the Runnymede Trust's Commission on Antisemitism in the early 1990s, and was appointed in 1998 to its Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. He also sits on the advisory committee of the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust exhibition.[2] He has regularly written for The Guardian.[3] BiographyLerman spent much of his early life within the Habonim, and trained to become a madrikh (youth leader) at the Jewish Agency's Jerusalem Institute for Foreign Leaders. He became Britain's first mazkir, (foreign youth leader) aged 22.[4] He made aliyah to Israel in 1970, and stayed there until 1973. From 1979 to 2009 he worked in Jewish organisations, mainly as a researcher for the Institute of Jewish Affairs , but also worked as a director of the Rothchild's Hanadiv Charity.[4] When Lerman became an outspoken supporter of a "one-state solution" that would replace Israel with a Muslim-majority Palestinian state, his ties to mainstream Jewish organizations fell apart, and the JPPI leadership ignored him and pursued its goals without his input or support until he got the hint and resigned in 2009. Since then, Lerman has often used the UK newspaper Guardian's "Comment is Free" section to advocate for the disavowal of Zionism and the one-state goal, which has earned him many fans on the pro-Palestinian Left but also resulted in him being completely ignored by the UK Jewish community and its leadership. New antisemitismIn the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Lerman argued that the concept of a "new antisemitism" has brought about "a revolutionary change in the discourse about anti-Semitism". He wrote that most contemporary discussions concerning antisemitism have become focused on issues concerning Israel and Zionism, and that the equation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism has become for many a "new orthodoxy". He added that this redefinition has often resulted in "Jews attacking other Jews for their alleged anti-Semitic anti-Zionism". While Lerman accepts that exposing alleged Jewish antisemitism is "legitimate in principle", he added that the growing literature in this field "exceeds all reason"; the attacks are often vitriolic, and encompass views that are not inherently anti-Zionist. Lerman argued that this redefinition has had unfortunate repercussions. He wrote that serious scholarly research into contemporary antisemitism has become "virtually non-existent", and that the subject is now most frequently studied and analysed by "people lacking any serious expertise in the subject, whose principal aim is to excoriate Jewish critics of Israel and to promote the "anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism" equation. Lerman concluded that this redefinition has ultimately served to stifle legitimate discussion, and that it cannot create a basis on which to fight antisemitism.[5] When Yale decided to close the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, many charged it was political in nature, owing to the Initiative's controversial focus on Muslim antisemitism. Abby Wisse Schachter, a commentator at the New York Post wrote that Yale "almost certainly" terminated the program because it "refused to ignore the most virulent, genocidal and common form of Jew-hatred today: Muslim anti-Semitism."[6] But Lerman welcomed the decision, and argued that the organisation was politicised and that its demise should be welcomed by those who "genuinely support the principle of the objective, dispassionate study of contemporary antisemitism."[7] Lerman believes claims that London is the "hub of international efforts to delegitimise Israel and that British Jews are subject to a constant barrage of media-driven anti-Zionist propaganda that borders on, or overlaps with, antisemitism" are grossly exaggerated.[8] His concern has been to stimulate discussion about the impact of Israel on European Jewry, and on the extent to which the rise in anti-Semitism is influenced by actions taken by the Israeli government.[4] Anti-Muslim sentimentLerman sees links between the Israeli far right and Islamophobic groups in Europe such as Geert Wilders and his anti-Islam Party for Freedom. Wilders and leaders of four other far right parties have visited Israel, despite their antisemitic roots. Lerman has noted that since 9/11, Israel has sought to identify itself with the US as a "fellow victim of Islamist terror". As Al Qaeda demonised America and Israel, the "Zionist right" began to argue a "new antisemitism" was a rising threat, thus recasting antisemitism as principally anti-Israel rhetoric from Muslim groups.[9] On gauging the threat of antisemitism, Lerman quoted Rabbi David Goldberg: "at the present time, it is far easier and safer to be a Jew than a Muslim, a black person or an east European asylum seeker."[10] Lerman was critical of an attack by the Jewish Chronicle on the Pears Foundation accusing them of "blindness towards jihadi propagandists". He considered obsessiveness against attempts to open a dialogue with Hamas as "actively encouraging their racism, antisemitism and terrorism", and regarded it as a generalised anti-Muslim discourse.[11] The Making and Unmaking of a ZionistIn his 2012 book, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist, Lerman analyses his positions over five decades, from early Zionist idealism to criticism of Zionism. He is not an 'anti-Zionist'. He argues that Zionism is a "done deal", like the French Revolution, something that occurred in the past. He contends that self-identifying Zionists in the diaspora are complicit in supporting an unjust occupation, and argues Israel must abrogate the Law of Return, change its Jewish character, and become a binational state for Jews and Palestinians. The diaspora must choose between universal values and multiculturalism, and Jewish exclusivity.[4] In an op-ed for The New York Times after the 2014 Gaza Strip war, Lerman concluded that, “The only Zionism of any consequence today is xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism. It is carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization to be achieved through colonization and purification of the tribe.”[12] Selected publications
References1. ^List of speakers {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118194853/http://www.leobaeck.co.uk/English/conferences0antisemitism.htm#speakers |date=18 November 2008 }}, Antisemitism in Europe Today: Academic Approaches, Leo Baeck Institute London, accessed 4 September 2009. 2. ^"JPR pays tribute to its founding director" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412123600/http://www.jpr.org.uk/Newsletter/index_spring_00.htm |date=12 April 2009 }}, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, spring 2000, accessed 4 September 2009. 3. ^"Antony Lerman, The Guardian, accessed 4 September 2009. 4. ^1 2 3 Anshel Pfeffer,'Britain's leading lapsed Zionist speaks out,' Haaretz, 1 September 2012. 5. ^Antony Lerman, "Jews attacking Jews", Ha'aretz, 12 September 2008, accessed 13 September 2008. 6. ^{{cite news |title=Yale's latest gift to anti-semitism |author=Abby Wisse Schachter |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/yale_latest_gift_to_anti_semitism_MVRL7G363U30EcMrxe15UM |newspaper=New York Post |date= |accessdate=14 June 2011}} 7. ^Daniel Treiman, "Lipstadt on Yale anti-Semitism initiative: Advocacy sometimes trumped scholarship", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 16 June 2011, accessed 16 June 2011. 8. ^ The Promise A Sensitive Television Drama on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, 17 February 2011 9. ^ "9/11 and the destruction of the shared understanding of antisemitism" Open Democracy 14 September 2011 10. ^Sense on antisemitism {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091116120325/http://www.axt.org.uk/essays/Lerman.htm |date=16 November 2009 }} 11. ^ The Jewish Chronicle's Attack on the Pears Foundation for 'Blindness' Towards 'Jihadi Propagandists' is Shoddy and Undeserved 12. ^Antony Lerman, [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/opinion/sunday/israels-move-to-the-right-challenges-diaspora-jews.html 'The End of Liberal Zionism:Israel’s Move to the Right Challenges Diaspora Jews,'] The New York Times, 22 August 2014 External links
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