{"product_id":"9781915796417","title":"Jews Did Count But for the Wrong Reasons","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the so-called 'antisemitism crisis' in the UK Labour Party hardens into an unassailable 'truth,' it becomes more important to challenge it. This book is the voice of a Jewish person saying 'no' to it; saying 'no' to the political leveraging of antisemitism which was part of a patchwork of disinformation largely designed to eradicate the possibility and hope of a deep seated change from a dominant economic ideology that has sustained grotesque inequality, wealth siphoning and asset bubbles that have ravaged our social fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(25, 25, 25, 1)\"\u003eJews Did Count But for the Wrong Reasons\u003c\/em\u003e is not only an account of one Jewish person's shock and dismay at the abuse of the meaning of antisemitism but also an account of a cultural shift that normalised disinformation on such a scale that it turned meaning and reality into a Mad Hatter's Tea Party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also a '\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(25, 25, 25, 1)\"\u003eLament\u003c\/em\u003e' for what the author considers the loss, within the \u003cem style=\"color: rgba(25, 25, 25, 1)\"\u003emainstream\u003c\/em\u003e sector of the Jewish communities, of values of social justice, equity and the instinct for challenging the \u003cem style=\"color: rgba(25, 25, 25, 1)\"\u003estatus quo\u003c\/em\u003e that has been a significant historical marker for Jewish culture. It is also a '\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(25, 25, 25, 1)\"\u003eLament\u003c\/em\u003e' for the way that an ossified sense of Jewish 'identity' has chimed in with a divisive populism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis short book, then, is one Jew raising his voice against the dominant narrative that there was a Labour 'antisemitism crisis.' It looks at the history of how the use of antisemitism as a charge has changed over the last fifty years and how language framing was used by the media and certain mainstream Jewish bodies to create a sense of crisis without underlying substance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46959199879409,"sku":"9781915796417","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781915796417_p0.jpg?v=1765712707","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781915796417","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}