A Plea for Distinctions DISENTANGLING ANTI-AMERICANISM FROM ANTI-SEMITISM

• Published in: The Anti-American Century p. 127
• Main Author: Brian Klug
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 20-04-2007
• Edition: NED - New edition, 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Anti Zionism; Antisemitism; Authoritarianism; Behavioral sciences; Cognitive psychology; Communications; Communications media; Election forecasting; Emotion; Emotional states; Ethnic groups; Ethnology; Ethnoreligious groups; Fascism; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of philosophy; Hostility; Jewish peoples; Judaic philosophy; Language; Lexicology; Linguistics; Nazism; Personality psychology; Political elections; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political processes; Political science; Politics; Polls; Prejudices; Psychological attitudes; Psychology; Racism; Social sciences; Visual materials; Words; Zionism
• ISBN: 9789637326806; 9637326804

Davos, Switzerland, January 2003: the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Indoors, about two thousand distinguished guests, including political leaders and chief executives of some of the world’s wealthiest corporations, are debating issues of global importance. Outdoors, a group of anti-globalization protestors who are engaging in street theater are captured on camera by the photographer Fabrice Coffrini. The picture features two masked figures, dressed in monkey costumes, representing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (center foreground) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.¹ Pinned to “Rumsfeld’s” chest is a yellow six-pointed badge that strikingly resembles the yellow Star of David that