The anti-antisemitism struggle constitutes a coherent social and political movement

Evidence

All this is most illuminating in accounting for state and non-state actors and actions, parameters and elements of the ‘episodes’ that I have briefly invoked, but I should say that I am not certain we need to confine our own imagination to political movements in particular, and most certainly not to contentious ones. Whether we are dealing (indeed, whether we are at all dealing) with a spiritual or religious movement, or with a more complex, plural and even disconnected phenomenon that involves spiritual, political as well as institutional and even economic dimensions, we may nevertheless profit by following the vectors traced here in order to perceive what are parts or fragments of a wide, indeed collective, mobilisation. As mobilisations go, it appears from the episodes mentioned to be a fairly successful one. It seems by now plausible, at any rate, that there is, if not a concerted effort and struggle, at least a multiple and layered deployment of diverse means and interventions, united or not, minimally tactical if not always strategic, all of which gather in pursuit of the same purpose: namely, to wage a war against antisemitism. There is, there appears to be, a war against antisemitism. That would be why, with all its apparent fragmentation and haphazardness, the struggle against antisemitism must be treated as a social and political movement. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1209

Categorization

• DEFINE: Author redefines the anti-antisemitism fight — fragmented and plural though it is — as a single collective mobilisation with a shared purpose.
• XREF: connects to: Antiracist movements are political struggles for self-determination and full political participation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 112