Word: antisemitisme
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Solidarity's Warsaw chapter quickly called on Poles "to stand against the attempt at anti-Semitic action." The Communist Party also rejected the incipient antiSemitism. Said Party Chief Stanislaw Kania: "We do not think that the possibility exists to use anti-Semitism for any purpose. It was always foreign...
It was the largest public demonstration in France since the 1968 strikes and the first time since the liberation of Paris in 1944 that all political parties and trade unions had united under a single banner. Filled with grief and revulsion, 150,000 people joined a solemn three-hour march...
After Israel, the main target of Palestinian resentment is the U.S., which evokes savage condemnations that stray close to open antiSemitism. Says one bitter intellectual in Amman: "You know why I hate the American Government? Because it is not an American government, it is a Zionist government." Frustrated Palestinians often...
The Russian Orthodox Church wins grudging praise for gradually surrendering to "the strengthening of Soviet power" and for denouncing "fascist aggression" during the "great patriotic war" (World War II). Still, its essence is defined as "reactionary." Judaism comes off less well, though the lexicon avoids antiSemitism. Zionism is dismissed as...
Some hugely successful novels have spawned a curious mass-market samizdat that differs sharply from the writings of dissidents. The newest underground hit is At the Last Frontier, a trashy historical novel by Valentin Pikul about Grigori Rasputin, the sexy, self-styled holy man who held the Russian imperial family...