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JOURNAL for the STUDY of ANTISEMITISM Eastern European Antisemitism Guest Editor, András Kovács Volume 4 Issue #2 2012 JOURNAL for the STUDY of ANTISEMITISM Volume 4, Issue #2, 2012 Eastern European Antisemitism Guest Editor: Andr´as Kov´acs Dedicated to the victims of Eastern European antisemitism and the courageous people who continue the fight against it. Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (JSA) Steven K. Baum and Neal E. Rosenberg, Editors, Marlton, NJ Steven L. Jacobs, Associate Editor/Judaic Studies, University of Alabama Lesley Klaff, Associate Editor/Law, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Florette Cohen, Associate Editor/Research, College of Staten Island Kenneth L. Marcus, Associate Editor/Academia, Louis D. Brandeis Center, DC Shimon T. Samuels, Chair, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Paris Ayaan Hirsi Ali, AHA Foundation, AEI, Washington, DC Paul Bartrop, Historian, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL Hadassa Ben-Itto, Author/Judge (Ret.), Tel Aviv Michael Berenbaum, Sigi Ziering Institute, Los Angeles Andrew Bostom, Brown University, Providence, RI Jonathan Boyd, Jewish Policy Research, London Israel W. Charny, Encyclopedia of Genocide, Jerusalem Ben Cohen, Writer, New York Florette Cohen, Social Psychology, College of Staten Island Irwin Cotler, Member of Parliament, Mount Royal, Canada Richard L Cravatts, SPME/Simmons College, Boston Sammy Eppel, Journalist/Human Rights, B’nai Brith, Caracas Bernie Farber, Canadian Jewish Congress, Toronto Manfred Gerstenfeld, JCPA, Jerusalem Sander Gilman, Humanities, Emory University, Atlanta Ari Goldberg, AIPAC, Washington, DC Clemens Heni, Political Science—MEF Funded, Berlin Jim Heller, Gadfly/Blogger, Victoria, BC Douglas Hoffman, Grant Writer, New Mexico State University Paul Iganski, Sociology, Lancaster University, UK Dennis L. Jackson, Statistics, University of Windsor Lee Jussim, Chair, Psychology, Rutgers University Wilhelm Kempf, Editor, Conflict and Communication, Konstanz, Germany Ruth Klein, League for Human Rights B’nai Brith, Toronto Andr´as Kov´acs, Sociology, Central European University, Budapest Neil J. Kressel, Psychology, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ Richard Landes, Department of History, Boston University Walter Laqueur, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Kenneth Lasson, Law, University of Baltimore Marcia Littell, Holocaust Studies, Richard Stockton College of NJ Judith Bosker Liwerant, Political Science, UNAM, Mexico City Hubert G. Locke, University of Washington, Seattle David Matas, Hon. Counsel, B’nai Brith Canada, Winnipeg Joanna B. Michlic, HBI, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Fiamma Nirenstein, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Rome Andre Oboler, Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, Melbourne Darren O’Brien, Australian Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sydney Andrei Oisteanu, Institute History of Religions, Bucharest John Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago Winston Pickett, Communications, Brighton, UK Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum, Philadelphia Dina Porat, Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University Lars Rensmann, Political Science, University of Michigan Gregg Rickman, former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Washington, DC Paul Lawrence Rose, European History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University Richard L. Rubenstein, President Emeritus, University of Bridgeport Frederick Schweitzer, Manhattan College, NYC Milton Shain, History, University of Cape Town, South Africa Marc I. Sherman, Index/Bibliography, Jerusalem Marcia Sokolowski, Baycrest Hospital, University of Toronto Philip J. Spencer, Helen Bamber Center, Kingston University, UK Pierre-Andre Taguieff, CNRS (Sciences Po), Paris Diana Siegel Vann, American Jewish Committee, Washington, DC Sue Vice, English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK James E. Waller, Cohen Chair, Keene State College, NH Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert Wistrich, Sassoon Center/SICSA Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bat Ye’or, Independent Scholar, Switzerland Andreas Zick, Faculty of Education, University of Bielefeld, Germany TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 4 Number 2 Eastern European Antisemitism...... Guest Editor: Andr´as Kov´acs 357 From the Editors: The Year in Hate .............. Steven K. Baum 361 and Neal E. Rosenberg Antisemitic Incidents from Around the World: July–December 2012 ...................................Editors 367 Articles Romania ......................................... Michael Shafir 387 Poland ..........................................Michał Bilewicz, 423 Mikołaj Winiewski, and Zuzanna Radzik Hungary ......................................... Andr´as Kov´acs 443 Slovakia ........................................Lenka Bustikova 469 and Petra Guasti Back to the Roots ...................................P´eter Krek´o 495 Of Scientific Note Antisemitism and Criticism of Israel ...............Wilhelm Kempf 515 Jewish Girls and their Experiences of Antisemitism .... Nora Gold 533 Essays Antisemitism in America: An Update 1995–2012.....................Leonard Dinnerstein 557 Rachel Corrie and the Rest of the Story ...............Ben Cohen 567 Finnish Reactions to the Holocaust .................Sirpa Bagman 571 Letter from Budapest ......................... Eszter Garai-Edler´ 581 Postcards from Switzerland and Holland ......Manfred Gerstenfeld 589 Islamic Antisemitism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict . Joseph S. Spoerl 595 Double Standards for Israel ..................Manfred Gerstenfeld 613 Portia, Shylock, and the Exclusion of Israeli Actors . David Hirsh 639 Jews Without Judaism .........................Faydra L. Shapiro 647 Hatefest ...................................... Shimon T. Samuels 667 An Intergenerational Blood Libel ................Daniel N. Leeson 671 The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant—Part II ..............Richard Spence 679 Why There Is No Peace in the Middle East ........ Itamar Marcus 707 and Nan J. Zilberdik Antisemitism and Hollywood— Part II: Mel Gibson ............................. Daniel Vahab 711 Global Antisemitism: Old Hatred, New Threats ............................. Abraham H. Foxman 735 Reviews Landes and Katz’s The Paranoid Apocalypse, Grobman’s License to Murder, and Webman’s Global Impact of The Protocols ...........................Steven Leonard Jacobs 741 Klein’s Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses..............................Catherine D. Chatterley 747 Alexander’s The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal ............................ Florette Cohen 753 Wistrich’s From Ambivalence to Betrayal.... Frederick M. Schweitzer 759 Reitter’s On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred .... Steven K. Baum 779 Bat Ye’or’s Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate ............. Richard L. Rubenstein 783 Rickman’s Hating the Jews .....................Alexander Traum 799 Boyarin’s Jewish Gospels ...................... John Pawlikowski 803 Kressel’s The Sons of Pigs and Apes ............ Matthias K¨untzel 807 Stromberg’s Jewish Images in the Comics ....... Asaf Romirowsky 813 Film: Dieudonn´e’s L’antis´emite ............... Shimon T. Samuels 817 Film: Goldfinger’s The Flat .......................Joanne Intrator 821 Theater: Adams’s Klinghoffer—The Opera ..... Shimon T. Samuels 825 Comment O’Brien Fires Back .............................. Darren O’Brien 829 Antisemitica..................................................... 833 Pogroms Tonge’s Tongue Top Ten Anti-Israeli Lies Festivals The JSA thanks Jeff and Evy Diamond for their continuing patronage. Jeff Diamond Law New Mexico and Texas M¨unchen-Gladbach, Germany, March 18, 1945: Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein, Newport News, holds the Holy Scroll as Cpt. Manuel M. Poliakoff, Baltimore, and Cpl. Martin Willen, cantor, of Baltimore, conduct services in Rheydt Castle, former residence of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The Jewish services, the first conducted east of the Roer River, were offered in memory of boys of the Jewish faith who lost their lives in the drive. The castle is now occupied by troops of the 29th division, US Ninth Army. —Bettmann/Corbis Introduction: Special Issue on Eastern European Antisemitism Andr´as Kov´acs* Guest Editor More than four million Jewish victims of the Holocaust came from four countries: Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia (an independent state from 1939), most of whose inhabitants had either passively observed or actively supported the ghettoization of the Jews and their deportation to the death camps. The scars left by the Shoa seemed to be deep and endur- ing. For a long time after World War II, it was thought that the mass murder of the Jews led to catharsis: it had rendered all forms of antisemitism illegit- imate forever in the countries of the genocide. “The antisemite was a latent killer before Auschwitz, but a manifest killer after Auschwitz,” wrote the Buchenwald survivor and Nobel Prize-winner author Imre Kert´esz.1 After Auschwitz, there seemed to be a moral consensus that there was no “inno- cent” antisemitism, and not only legal and social discrimination of Jews but the public expression of everyday stereotypes and prejudices became intol- erable—not least because people had seen how quickly “moderate” antisemites could become active participants in, or passive observers of, the persecution of Jews. This explains why so many were shocked by the sud- den reappearance of antisemitism in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia (an independent state once again from 1993) in the aftermath of the collapse of the communist regimes. As a series of memoirs, oral history documents, and recollections