WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #336 - Culture, Read: Illana Weizman, "White people like the others?" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Whites like the others? The Jews, blind spot of anti-racism by Illana Weizman is

a very accessible book which takes the time to explain the basic notions often
used in the fight against racism, useful for anyone with little or no knowledge.
---- The author, feminist and anti-racist activist, mixes her personal story as a
French Jewish woman suffering from anti-Semitism with her analyzes and
criticisms. It first briefly evokes anti-Semitism in history, the three different
theoretical forms it takes over the periods and its intertwining with anti-Judaism.
She devotes a second chapter to the critique of anti-Semitism on the left,
addressing the tendency, from reformists to radicals, to the failure to take
anti-Semitism into account, particularly in anti-racist analyzes where Jews are
considered as Whites, as individuals at the top of the racial hierarchy, escaping
the process of racialization.

Finally, it invites the gathering and the convergence of struggles between
racialized people suffering from different oppressions. She insists on the fact
that talking about the anti-Semitism suffered by Jews does not amount to making
other forms of racist discrimination invisible, but on the contrary to paying
more attention to all of them.

The book is well structured so that it is easy to navigate. It can easily serve
as an introduction to reflections on anti-Semitism, supplemented by other
references. Ram (UCL Lyon)

Illana Weizman, White people like the others?, Stock, 2022, 232 pages, 19.50 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Illana-Weizman-Des-Blancs-comme-les-autres
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