Anti-Semitism Hatred

Sierra Thompson* and William Brustein

Office of Global Affairs, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506

Presentation Category: Oral-Behavioral & Social Sciences (Oral Presentation #41)

Student’s Major: History

The research that I am conducting with my mentor is the helping with his book on why Anti-Semitism occurred in areas that had no prior existence of said minority in the host country. The cases that I am looking at are Oliver Cromwell, Norman Jacques, and another case in Japan I believe. Oliver Cromwell was fighting for Jews to be allowed back into England however he failed to accomplish what he set out to do. “For our study, we concentrate on anti-Semitism where the majority non-Jewish population has had little or no engagement with the minority Jewish population. Historical examples abound: including Oliver Cromwell’s failed attempt to bring back the Jews after nearly 400 years since expulsion from England in the face of popular resistance; the successful electoral campaigns of the Canadian Social Credit Party’s Norman Jacques during the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta province; the popularity of the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and other virulently anti-Semitic best-selling books authored by Uno Masami in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s; and the 1991 Polish national elections where so-called “Jewish influence” served as a chief campaign issue for the nationalistic right” (William Brustein)

Funding:

Program/mechanism supporting research/creative efforts: WVU's Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP) & accompanying HONR 297-level course