Two aspects of that letter are particularly important. The first is the link between antisemitism and all forms of hate and prejudice, and the fact that so many signatories are not Jewish. Shortly after the liberation of Paris in 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre noted this link in his essay, “Antisemite and Jew”. In painting the picture of the antisemite as someone afraid “not of the Jews but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of change, of society and of the world”, Sartre noted that where no Jew is available, antisemites will substitute someone else as the target of...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
