Summary
The author of 3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization (2004), written while he was Israel’s minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora affairs, in charge of monitoring anti-Semitism; a former dissident and Prisoner of Zion in the Soviet Union who spent nine years in Soviet jails (3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization, lines 333-335, line 385).
Details
- As a dissident in the former Soviet Union, one of his regular activities was monitoring anti-Semitism and smuggling out evidence and records of it to the West; he was among the dissidents who formed the Helsinki Group in the wake of the Helsinki accords (lines 333, 373).
- The biography printed with the article records: former Prisoner of Zion, nine years in Soviet jails; minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora affairs when he wrote the article; founder in 2003 of the Global Forum against Anti-Semitism; also served as minister of industry and trade, interior minister, minister of construction and housing, and deputy prime minister; author of the memoir Fear No Evil (United States, 1988, translated into nine languages) and of The Case for Democracy (Public Affairs, New York, 2004) (line 385).
- In the article he reports regularly summoning the ambassadors of West European states to protest anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in their countries and their governments’ often meek response, and that his office published the 150-page report Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary Middle East earlier in 2004 (lines 335, 359).
- He proposes the 3D Test of Anti-Semitism to distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from the New Anti-Semitism, and prescribes a Linkage Policy against states that support anti-Semitism (lines 345-351, lines 367-377).
- A later author block carried on the JCFA page, current site frame at retrieval and not part of the 2004 article, names him Chairman of the Jewish Agency (lines 387-397).
Related pages
3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization, 3D Test of Anti-Semitism, New Anti-Semitism, Antisemitism, Linkage Policy, Helsinki Group, Global Forum against Anti-Semitism