An Imaginary Racism by Pascal Bruckner

Author:Pascal Bruckner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2018-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic, New York: Vintage, 2012, p. 68.

2 ‘With the creation of the state of Israel, the whole Muslim nation was lost, because Israel is a cancer that is spreading throughout the whole body of the Islamic nation, and because Jews are a virus that resembles AIDS, and that is infecting the whole world. You will discover that Jews have been the origin of all the world’s civil wars. Jews are behind the suffering of nations. The day will come when everything will be taken back from the Jews, even the trees and the stones that have been their victims.’ A sermon delivered on 13 May 2005 at the Great Mosque of Gaza, quoted in Küntzel, Djihad et haine des Juifs, p. 15.

3 Hani Ramadan, blog.tdg.ch, 23 October 2009. Tsahal is an acronym referring to the State of Israel’s armed forces.

4 Robert Wistrich, Muslim Antisemitism: A Clear and Present Danger, New York American Jewish Committee, May 2002. Many passages in the Quran describe Jews as perfidious and malevolent beings doomed to ‘debasement’ in this world and a ‘magisterial punishment’ in the next. The Jews have refused to accept Allah’s revelation, and since the beginnings of Islam they have sought to divide and weaken it. As for the Holocaust, it is a diabolical invention, a marketing operation intended to conceal the far worse crimes committed by Zionists against Palestinians. The 11 September 2001 attacks on New York (renamed ‘Jew York’) were welcomed with cries of joy in many Arab countries. This anti-Semitism has, of course, been spread by Muslim immigrants in Europe and in the United States, and is found in Muslim communities in every Western country.

5 Pierre-André Taguieff, Dictionnaire historique et critique du racisme, Paris: PUF, 2013, pp. 525–7.

6 Edward Said, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, 1 June 2000, pp. 42–3.

7 El Moujahid, 10 June 1967, quoted in Bouteldja, Les Blancs, les Juifs et nous. For her part, Bouteldja calls for Sartre to be shot posthumously.

8 See, for example, in the Spring 2012 issue of Islamophobia Studies Journal, a publication of the University of California at Berkeley, the article by Ramón Grosfoguel, ‘The Multiple Faces of Islamophobia’.

9 Thomas Deltombe, Le Monde, 1 November 2013.

10 A talk given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2016, sponsored by the Ecology and Justice Forum in Global Studies and Languages, on the theme: ‘Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?’

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