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arguments. Jews were considered an exclusionary community,
misanthropic, sterile in culture and barbarous in their religious
practices throughout the antiquity; accused of deicide, desecrating
host, ritually murdering Christian children and poisoning wells in
the late Middle Ages. A return to pre-Christian accusations took
place in the Enlightenment. Biological racism despised the Jews
and Judaism as racially and culturally inferior in the second half
of the XIXth century. And in the first decades of the XXth century
new accusations have been added up to the catalogue, such as the
world domination of the Jewish financial power, corrupting effect
of the Jewish money, as well as communism and Bolshevism as
Jewish plots to destroy western Christian societies etc. But you
know all this, and I will not dwell on them.
I will also put aside racism perpetrated against the indigenous
peoples, blacks or Asians by the discoverers of the New
Hemisphere or colonisers of the South or white slave traders or the
apartheid regime in South Africa.
In explaining racism, I will allocate as short time as possible to
methodological and theoretical aspects, assuming once again that
you know something about Freudian psychoanalysis, Jungian
depth psychology and Girardian concept of violence, as far as they
are concerned with racism.
I will not try either to refute racial theories which the UNESCO
project on the subject has done exceptionally successfully.
Finally, I will not expound on the resurfacing racism and
antisemitism in Europe, since the report of the UN Center for
Human Rights in 1992 the recent report of the UN Special
Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, the Oakley report of
the Council of Europe and the Glyn Ford report of the European
Parliament have provided us with ample evidence in this respect.
Dear Guests,
I will try to focus on the psychological mechanism underpinning
antisemitism and racism. My hypothesis is that, no matter how
changeable racism or antisemitism is, this mechanism never
changes and is common to all their forms and manifestations.
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