Status Updates From Deciphering the New Antisem...

I think the section on Holocaust Denial is the strongest total section.

While there have continued to be fabulous chapters, my feeling about the book as a whole has somewhat declined. This is led by the fact that there is some deeply Islamophobic content in some, particularly the chapter "Antisemitism and Islamophobia: An Inversion of Debt" by Pascal Bruckner, which is the first chapter in the book. Likewise, the chapter on anarchism and Zionism devolves into anarchist fear baiting.

So far, the book is fantastic. I think some readers may be put off by the suspicion many of the contributors have about anti-Zionism, but the arguments are clear and compelling (even if you don't agree about Zionism, lord knows I don't). Sina Arnold's chapter on Occupy Wallstreet is one of the best discussions of left antisemitism written from an actual left perspective, and presents a dynamite summary of the issue.