Deborah Lipstadt wrote a new book on anti-Semitism. Then Pittsburgh happened
The advance copies of Deborah Lipstadt’s new book, “Antisemitism Here and Now,” display a cover photo of a white supremacist carrying a tiki torch. But that iconic image of the August 2017 white power rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, could now be replaced by another one: Police tape cordoning off the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh. Or perhaps the row of cut-out stars displaying the names of that massacre’s 11 victims.
Kopija knjige Deborah Lipstadt nove knjige: "Antisemitism Here and Now" imala je na naslovnoj omotnici sliku bijelog rasista iz demonstracija u kolovozu 2017 . u
Charlottesville, Virginia, ali ta bi slika sada mogla biti zamijenjena sa drugom slikom : policijske ograde nakon napada na
Tree of Life Congregation u Pittsburghu ili možda sliku s imenima 11 žrtava tog masakra.
“Antisemitism,” knjiga napisana ranije ove godine, promovirana u veljači, nudi koncizni i potpuni pregled različitih oblika mržnje prema Židovima koji se ponavljaju ili pojačavaju u nekoliko posljednjih godina.
I prije "Pittsburga" bilo je mnogo toga o čemu se moglo pisati - antisemitski napadi u Europi ; "all right"u USA; Holokaust revizionizam i negiranje; kako se kritika Izraela pretvara u antisemitizam i Charlottesville.
Sada se dogodila tragedija u Pittsburghu " i to je za Lipstadt, koja je poznata povjesničarka Holokausta i profesor Emory univerziteta , i iznenađenje ali i reafirmacija njenih upozorenja.
Na kraju intervjua za JTA je autorica kazala:
A healthy democratic society cannot tolerate anti-Semitism and racism. If that is festering in its midst, it says something is unhealthy about the society. It’s not just Jews for whom this is dangerous. This should terrify you. Because if this is happening to Jews, it may start with the Jews but it doesn’t end with the Jews.