1.0Twist Islamophobiahttps://twistislamophobia.org/enFundación de Cultura Islámicahttps://twistislamophobia.org/en/author/funci/Islamophobia, the new Western racism - Twist Islamophobiarich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="TYmTCP3Rpb"><a href="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2017/07/02/islamophobia-the-new-western-racism/">Islamophobia, the new Western racism</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2017/07/02/islamophobia-the-new-western-racism/embed/#?secret=TYmTCP3Rpb" width="600" height="338" title="“Islamophobia, the new Western racism” — Twist Islamophobia" data-secret="TYmTCP3Rpb" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://twistislamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Islamofobia_racismo_0-e1509620357561.jpg800600In this essay, written exclusively for the Pluto blog, author of the recently published End of Jewish Modernity and prolific historian of the twentieth-century, Enzo Traverso examines the parallels between two strains of modern xenophobia: anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Looking at politics, the media and cultural output, Traverso reveals significant similarities between today’s Islamophobia and the older anti-Semitism. ‘A new wave of Islamophobia is spreading in the West. If elected President, Donald Trump has vowed to expel all Muslims from the United States and across the European Union, conservative currents claim laws against Islam. Islam is perceived as a barbarism and a threat to Western, “Jewish-Christian” civilization, a tendency gaining strength in France following a succession of terrorist attacks In this culture of extreme xenophobia and prejudice, the notion that Muslim citizens be compelled to wear a yellow star and crescent on their clothes, like Jews during the Second World War, no longer seems beyond the realms of possibility. The old ghost of discrimination In the first half of the twentieth century, anti-Semitism was widespread almost everywhere, from the aristocratic and bourgeois layers—where it established symbolic boundaries—to the intelligentsia: many of the most important writers of the 1930s did not hide their hatred of the Jews. Today, ...