Dancing with European nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth antisemitism conference

Held between 26th and 27th  January at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center and called Generation Truth, the second international conference on combating antisemitism was a picture of cracking contradictions. Organised by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, it featured speakers from various far-right groups, many European, and saw Australia’s former Prime Minister and Pentecostal believer, Scott Morrison, address attendees.  (The man is obviously touting for gigs.) The attendance list caused problems prior to last year’s inaugural conference, not least because it included speakers from parties with memberships boasting neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.  If this was Chikli’s effort at humour, violating that injunction that Zionism and Nazism shall never be linked, few were laughing.  Notable international figures such […]