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Anti-semitism, Israel and nationalism, part 1/3

Antony Lerman in conversation with Tony Curzon Price around Lerman's political memoir, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist - A personal and political journey. Part 1, 37 mins.

A nationalist development can have two possible consequences. Either a healthy reaction will set in that will overcome the danger heralded by nationalism, and also nationalism itself, which has now fulfilled its purpose - or nationalism will establish itself as the permanent principle: in other words it will exceed its function, pass beyond its proper bounds and with overemphasised consciousness displace the spontaneous life of the nation. Unless some force arises to oppose this process it may well be the beginning of the downfall of the people, a downfall dyed in the colours of nationalism.

 

Martin Buber, Nationalism, 1921

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Tony Curzon Price

Tony Curzon Price

Tony Curzon Price was editor-in-chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012.

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Antony Lerman

Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow (visiting) at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, Southampton University. He is the former founding director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), is Associate Editor of the international academic journal on racism Patterns of Prejudice and has written widely on antisemitism, Middle East politics, multiculturalism for such periodicals as the GuardianIndependentLondon Review of BooksProspectNew York TimesThe NationHaaretzJewish Chronicle and tachles

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