JOURNALfor the STUDYof ANTISEMITISM

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gressive discourse considers the embodiment of radical evil (Nazi,
genocidal, colonialist, imperialist, terrorist state, racist, segregationist, etc.).
But this cannot magically materialize these social relationships (even
though for the “progressive,” Jew phobia has as much reality as did the
“Jewish threat” to the Nazi or the “Jew-vampire” consumer ritual of human
blood perpetrated by the medieval Jew phobia).
“Christ killers” to “murderous rituals”; “murderous rituals” to
“genocidaires,” collective fantasies about the Jews have the power to
“translate,” and to assume a “credible” appearance. The fact is that the irrational
fantasies of Jew phobia are reproduced and recycled. “Conspirators to
kill Christ” to “plotters to betray the nation that the blanket”; “plotters to
betray the nation that the blanket” to “conspirators to dominate the world”;
“usurers” to “stars of the Holocaust.” These discursive axes are maintained
throughout history and are recycled and adapted according to the new social
conditions. The main characteristic of the new Judeophobia is the confluence
of the three main antisemitic groups: radical left, Islamic fundamentalism,
and extreme right wing, all present at a discursive level.
THE “JEW-ZIONIST CONSPIRACY” MYTH
According to U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz: “It
is marked as the operator of the companies of the Jewish lobby in the business
of the wars and the ‘reconstruction,’ and so union as the main introducer
of the techniques of torture in Iraqi prisons of the occupation.” 39
“Bush won and so did the Zionist lobby, which keeps him in each of
its actions in support of the criminal Israeli premier Sharon”; “Lost Kerry
and the Zionist lobby, which also handed out millions of dollars in their
electoral basket, knows that he has an ally of iron to hinder any departure of
self-determination of the Palestinian people, at the time the invaded, the
attacked, the exile, but never defeated . . .” 40
Personal current fundamentalism, among which is Zionism or Jewish
fundamentalism interested in pushing through its Jew American lobby to
the Bush administration, which carried out the war of imperialist aggression
39. Anonymous, Wolfowitz: Jewish Lobby “to the World Bank,” on the Web
site of the Communist Party of Peru, http://www.patriaroja.org.pe/html/colaboraciones/wolfowitz_del_lobby_judio_al_banco_mundial.htm
40. Carlos Aznárez, When Bush and nearly 60 million reasons to not sleep
peacefully on the web site of Gramma (official organ of the Communist Party of
Cuba), http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/noviembre/sabado6/razones-e.html on
January 22, 2002.