Thesis advisor: Franck Salameh / Anti-Semitism has become a virulent, pervasive phenomenon in the Modern Middle East today. In the past, anti-Semitism was mostly absent from mainstream Middle Eastern society. In the past two centuries, however, social and political upheaval, the encroachment of Western influence in the region, and the effects of Zionist organizations and the state of Israel have made the region a dangerous place for Jews. Anti-Semitism is perpetuated today by political and religious leaders as well as the media and is fueled by the anger and frustration of the people of the Middle East. This study examines the roots and causes of anti-Semitism in Middle Eastern history, in the religions and foreign powers that have impacted the region, and in the events of the twentieth century. It details the nature of anti-Semitism today and examines this phenomenon specifically in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan in a comparative case study. This investigation closes by examining the possible steps towards ending Jew hatred in the region. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo demonstrar o anti-semitismo na Companhia de Jesus apontando suas causas e consequências. Enumerei e Entretanto, a intolerância foi se acirrando, os estigmas contra os judeus atingia cada vez mais intensamente os jesuítas cristãos novos. Os dirigentes da Companhia tentarem dar continuidade ao legado tolerante das primeiras gerações dos inacianos. Mas logo adotaram as práticas anti-semitas. A Companhia de Jesus resolveu adotar o Estatuto de Limpeza de Sangue que impediu o ingresso dos conversos. Encerrou-se a etapa humanista dos inacianos. Fechou-se a porta da casa que acolheu e permitiu que muitos cristãos novos fizessem parte do rol dos expoentes jesuítas. analisei os motivos pelos quais a Ordem recebeu os cristãos novos em um contexto de crescente sentimento anti-semita. Evidencie o papel relevante desempenhado pelos cristãos novos na criação e no crescimento da Companhia de Jesus até no momento da aprovação do Estatuto de Limpeza de Sangue. Analisei os conflitos que a Companhia de Jesus enfrentou devido ao recebimento dos conversos. Esta política de tolerância com os cristãos novos foi contestada, desde o início, tanto por jesuítas cristãos velhos, quanto pela nobreza, por membros influentes das coroas ibéricas e pelo Tribunal do Santo Ofício. Com o transcorrer do tempo os anti-semitas foram ganhando força política. Os cristãos novos começaram a perder os cargos ocupados durante os primeiros anos da Companhia e o ingresso na Ordem foi se tornando cada vez mais dificultado e em alguns casos não eram recebidos antes mesmo da aprovação do Estatuto de Limpeza de Sangue. Apesar das dificuldades enfrentadas, nos primeiros trinta anos da Companhia de Jesus foi possível receber os conversos. A Ordem sempre encontrava alguma forma de incorporá-los ao seu corpo de sacerdotes. Transferia os descriminados para lugares onde o anti-semitismo fosse menor ou mudava seus nomes. / This research had as objective to show the anti-semitism in the Jesus Company pointing its causes and consequences. I analysed and enumerated the reasons for which the Order received them in a context from increasing anti-semitic sense. Its has been showed the relevant role played by the new christians in the creation and growth of the Jesus Company even in the moment of approval of Statute of Clenness of Blood. It had been analized that the Jesus of Company faced due to the act receiving of the converts. This politics of tolerance with the new christians was contested, since the beginning, both for old christian jesuits, and for the nobility, influential members of the Iberian Crowns and and for the Court of the Saint Profession Along the time the anti-semitcs had been gaining political forces. The new christians had started to lose the ocuppied positions during the first years of the Company and the ingression in the Order was becoming more difficult through the time and in some cases they were not received even before the approval the Statute of Cleannses of Blood. Although the faced difficultys in first years of the Company of Jesus were possible to receive the converts. The Order always found some way to incorporate them in its corps of priests. Transferred the acquitted ones for places where the antisemitism was lesser or changed its names. However the intolerance was became inciting, the stigmas against the Jews reached every time more intensely the new christians jesuits. The leaders of the Company tryed to give continuity to the tolerance legacy of the first generations of ignacians. But they gad soon adopted the anti-semitics practices. The Company of Jesus decided to adopt the Statute of Cleannses of Blood that obstructed the ingression of the converts. It was locked the humanistic stage of the ignatians, and it was closed the door of the house that received and allowed that many new christians were part of the roll of the notorious jesuits.

The thesis examines the relationship between Britain’s Jews, both established and refugee, with the host community from 1938 to 1948. The relationship is studied in the light of events in Europe and the Near East from the 1938 Anschluss to the 1948 founding of Israel and the ways they impacted upon Jews in Britain. The work shows a positive reaction towards Jews in Britain, with few, but specific exceptions. Existing academic work has often concentrated on those exceptions, particularly in the East End of London. This study looks at the wider Jewish experience to show a more peaceful and tolerant coexistence than has formally been presented, especially to recently arrived Jews. The focus of the thesis is on the different personal experiences of Jews in Britain, against the more familiar high political context of the period. The thesis does not dispute the existence of anti-Semitism, but shows that it was limited to traditional geographical areas and has been in many cases confused with a more general xenophobia towards any ‘outsider’ or ‘foreigner’. It also deals with what the study refers to as ‘pragmatic’ government decisions regarding Jews and highlights some non-Jewish reactions which have been seen as discriminatory, but in fact were often born out of naive ignorance or having no realistic alternative. Using different approaches to examine a wide and fragmented cross section of Jews, the thesis shows the internal struggle many faced when dealing with the issues of what it meant to be British, a Jew and for some, a desire to have a safe homeland in Palestine. Overall, it is a study in the transformation of Jewish society in Britain from being deferential and submissive to one of assertiveness and self-reliance born out of necessity.

Denna uppsats Judehatet i Sverige - en undersökning om hur antisemitism kommer till uttryck i Malmö handlar om hur antisemitismen har utvecklats och fått ett starkt fotfäste i den svenska staden Malmö. Genom en teoretisk provtagning har jag valt antale intervjuade personer utifrån deras möjlighet att bidra med relevant kunskap. Jag har även använt mig utav en kvalitativ intervjumetod med tre informanter från den judiska församlingen i Malmö och jag har haft för avsikt att undersöka hur antisemitismen har utvecklats i Malmö och hur detta upplevs av judar. Genom olika artiklar och annan relevant litteratur har jag försökt utvidga det judiska perspektivet om hur stämningen i Malmö upplevs. Analysen belyser hur judar i Malmö upplever att antisemitismen kommer till uttryck och hur judefientligheten ökat i staden samt hur den pågående Israel-Palestinakonflikten påverkar de fientliga stämningarna i staden. Analysen lyfter även fram vilka eventuella orsaker som ligger bakom denna utveckling och på vilket sätt mina informanter tror att man kan arbeta bort antisemitismen i staden. / This thesis "Jew-hatred in Sweden - a study on how anti-Semitism is manifested in Malmö" is about how anti-Semitism has been developed and gained a strong foothold in the Swedish city of Malmö. Through a theoretical sampling I selected the number of interviewed persons based on their ability to contribute with relevant knowledge. I have also used a qualitative interview method with three informants from the Jewish community in Malmö and my intention has been to explore how Anti-Semitism has evolved in Malmö and how it affects Jews. Through various articles and other relevant literature I have tried to expand the Jewish perspective on how the mood in Malmö is experienced by them. The analysis highlights how the Jews in Malmö feel that anti-Semitism is expressed and how hostility against Jews has increased and hos the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the hostile atmosphere in the city. The analysis also highlights possible reasons behind this development and the way in which my informants believe that they can work against anti-Semitism in the city.

The thesis is comprised of four parts. The first, consisting of two chapters, challenges some generally accepted views about the 1930's as a whole and emphasises the change in political consciousness that occurred in the minds of ordinary people. The ideology of the B. U. F. is analysed in the context of the decade. The second part, consisting of five chapters, provides a detailed history of the B. U. F. in the North of England from the days of its precursor, the New Party, to the detention of the leading B. U. F. members in 1940- Much of the history of the movement is concerned with Manchester though attention is also paid to other areas in the North of England. The 1938 Manchester municipal elections also receive attention, because of the campaigns waged by the B. U. F. candidates. This is the first major regional study of the B. U. F. The third part deals with the ordinary membership of the B. U. F. in the North of England. The two chapters in this section assess previous judgements regarding B. U. P. membership and make use of interviews and unpublished manuscripts to provide the most detailed analysis of the membership of a British Pascist party. The final part of the thesis consistsq firstlyq of a detailed account of the reaction of the Jewish community, both nationally and in-thrighesterg to the anti-Semitism of the B. U. P., and, secondly, the attitude of the police, judiciary, local authorities and the government to the rise of the British Union of Fascists.

This thesis uses critical discursive psychology to analyse anti-Semitic and Islamophobic discourse on the Facebook pages of two far-right organisations: Britain First and the English Defence League. Using the Charlie Hebdo attack as a time frame, I examine how the far-right manage their identity and maintain rationality online, as well as how users on Facebook respond to the far-right. This thesis demonstrates how Britain First and the English Defence League present themselves as reasonable in their anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic stance following the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Ultimately, I bring together the study of fascist discourse and political discourse on social media using critical discursive psychology, in a novel synthesis. The Charlie Hebdo shooting and the shooting at the kosher supermarket in Paris in January 2015 (as well as other attacks by members of the Islamic State) have led to Muslims being seen as a threat to Britain, and thus Muslims have been exposed to Islamophobic attacks and racial abuse. The current climate is a challenging situation for the far-right, as they are presented with the dilemma of appearing as rational and even mainstream, whilst nevertheless adopting an anti-Islamic stance. The analysis focuses on how Britain First and the English Defence League used the shooting at the Kosher supermarket to align with Jews in order to construct them as under threat from Islam, and promote its anti-Islamic stance. I also analyse visual communication used by Britain First to provide evidence that Britain First supported Jewish communities. Discourse from Facebook users transitioned from supportive towards Jews, to questioning the benefits that Jews brought to Britain, and expressing Holocaust denial. Furthermore, I discuss how other far-right politicians in Europe such as Geert Wilders from the Dutch Party for Freedom, portrayed himself as a reasonable politician in the anti-Islamic stance he has taken in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Findings are discussed in light of how the far-right communicate about the Charlie Hebdo shooting whilst maintaining a reasonable stance when projecting anti-Semitic and Islamophobic ideology, and how such discourse can encompass hate speech. I demonstrate how critical discursive psychology can be used to show how various conflicting social identities are constructed and interact with each other online. This thesis shows how the far-right use aligning with Jews as means to present Muslims as problematic, and how such alignment has resulted in the marginalisation of both Jews and Muslims.

abstract: Anti-Semitism is a recurrent phenomenon in modern history, but has garnered relatively little focus among research psychologists compared to prejudice toward other groups. The present work frames anti-Semitism as a strategy for managing the implications of Jews’ extraordinary achievements compared to other groups. Anti-Semitic beliefs are sorted into two types: stereotypes that undercut the merit of Jews’ achievements by attributing them to unfair advantages such as power behind the scenes; and stereotypes that offset Jews’ achievements by attaching unfavorable traits or defects to Jews, which are unrelated to the achievement domains, e.g. irritating personalities or genetically-specific health problems. The salience of Jews’ disproportionate achievements was hypothesized as driving greater endorsement of anti-Semitic stereotypes, and envy was hypothesized as mediating this effect. Individual differences in narcissistic self-esteem and moral intuitions around in-group loyalty and equity-based fairness were hypothesized as moderating the effect of Jewish achievement on anti-Semitic beliefs. The results showed greater endorsement of undercutting – but not offsetting – stereotypes after reading about Jewish achievements, compared to Jewish culture or general American achievement conditions. Envy did not significantly mediate this effect. The moral foundation of in-group loyalty predicted greater endorsement of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the Jewish Achievement condition, and lesser endorsement in the Jewish Culture condition. Fairness intuitions did not significantly predict stereotype endorsement. Limitations of the sample and next steps are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Psychology 2015

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo demonstrar o anti-semitismo na Companhia de Jesus apontando suas causas e consequências. Enumerei e Entretanto, a intolerância foi se acirrando, os estigmas contra os judeus atingia cada vez mais intensamente os jesuítas cristãos novos. Os dirigentes da Companhia tentarem dar continuidade ao legado tolerante das primeiras gerações dos inacianos. Mas logo adotaram as práticas anti-semitas. A Companhia de Jesus resolveu adotar o Estatuto de Limpeza de Sangue que impediu o ingresso dos conversos. Encerrou-se a etapa humanista dos inacianos. Fechou-se a porta da casa que acolheu e permitiu que muitos cristãos novos fizessem parte do rol dos expoentes jesuítas. analisei os motivos pelos quais a Ordem recebeu os cristãos novos em um contexto de crescente sentimento anti-semita. Evidencie o papel relevante desempenhado pelos cristãos novos na criação e no crescimento da Companhia de Jesus até no momento da aprovação do Estatuto de Limpeza de Sangue. Analisei os conflitos que a Companhia de Jesus enfrentou devido ao recebimento dos conversos. Esta política de tolerância com os cristãos novos foi contestada, desde o início, tanto por jesuítas cristãos velhos, quanto pela nobreza, por membros influentes das coroas ibéricas e pelo Tribunal do Santo Ofício. Com o transcorrer do tempo os anti-semitas foram ganhando força política. Os cristãos novos começaram a perder os cargos ocupados durante os primeiros anos da Companhia e o ingresso na Ordem foi se tornando cada vez mais dificultado e em alguns casos não eram recebidos antes mesmo da aprovação do Estatuto de Limpeza de Sangue. Apesar das dificuldades enfrentadas, nos primeiros trinta anos da Companhia de Jesus foi possível receber os conversos. A Ordem sempre encontrava alguma forma de incorporá-los ao seu corpo de sacerdotes. Transferia os descriminados para lugares onde o anti-semitismo fosse menor ou mudava seus nomes. / This research had as objective to show the anti-semitism in the Jesus Company pointing its causes and consequences. I analysed and enumerated the reasons for which the Order received them in a context from increasing anti-semitic sense. Its has been showed the relevant role played by the new christians in the creation and growth of the Jesus Company even in the moment of approval of Statute of Clenness of Blood. It had been analized that the Jesus of Company faced due to the act receiving of the converts. This politics of tolerance with the new christians was contested, since the beginning, both for old christian jesuits, and for the nobility, influential members of the Iberian Crowns and and for the Court of the Saint Profession Along the time the anti-semitcs had been gaining political forces. The new christians had started to lose the ocuppied positions during the first years of the Company and the ingression in the Order was becoming more difficult through the time and in some cases they were not received even before the approval the Statute of Cleannses of Blood. Although the faced difficultys in first years of the Company of Jesus were possible to receive the converts. The Order always found some way to incorporate them in its corps of priests. Transferred the acquitted ones for places where the antisemitism was lesser or changed its names. However the intolerance was became inciting, the stigmas against the Jews reached every time more intensely the new christians jesuits. The leaders of the Company tryed to give continuity to the tolerance legacy of the first generations of ignacians. But they gad soon adopted the anti-semitics practices. The Company of Jesus decided to adopt the Statute of Cleannses of Blood that obstructed the ingression of the converts. It was locked the humanistic stage of the ignatians, and it was closed the door of the house that received and allowed that many new christians were part of the roll of the notorious jesuits.

The diploma thesis discusses with National Socialism alias Nazism, with which the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; hereinafter referred to as the NSDAP) was associated. The aim of this work is to familiarize with the development of the NSDAP from its outset in relation to the arrival of Adolf Hitler and his collaborators. On the basis of specialized literature, historical sources and party documents of the NSDAP, this thesis describes and analyzes a historical digression related to the socio-economic and political situation in Germany at the time of the birth and rise of the NSDAP, the ideology of German Nazism, the role and significance of the NSDAP propaganda, and the birth and rise of the NSDAP in the years 1925 to 1945. The final part of this thesis contains the short biographies of the five closest collaborators of Adolf Hitler, who participated significantly in the rise of the NSDAP. KEYWORDS NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, nationalism, anti-Semitism, propaganda

This master thesis "Anti-Jewish propaganda during the Second Czechoslovak Republic in selected periodicals" analyses four journals for evidence of anti-Semitic manifestations. Jewish question in the second half of the Thirties of the 20th century resonated throughout whole Europe, including Czechoslovakia. On the territory of the Second Republic was the situation for the Jewish population, unlike other European countries, relatively bearable. However, it is possible to observe the practices of anti-Jewish propaganda, for example labeling of Jewish shops, or anti-Semitic texts published in papers. Periodicals based in Czechoslovakia in the period from October 1938 to March 1939 can be divided into three groups according to the classification of Petr Bednarik. In the first group there are newspapers with anti-Semitic articles, among them the National Policy. The second selected journal Czech Word belongs to the group of periodicals, which was trying not to publish articles about this topic, and the third group, which rejected anti-Semitic attacks, include the periodicals the People's Right and the National Labour. The aim is to map these periodicals and confirm their inclusion in the relevant categories and describe the development of anti-Semitic propaganda during the Second Czechoslovak Republic....