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ISBN: 9781990823107-06

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Jews as Victims

From: Antisemitism

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In this chapter, Slayton explores the tension between two narratives of Jewish identity: victimhood and power, tracing this duality from the Holocaust to Israel’s creation in 1948 and its rise as a regional superpower.

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Philip Slayton

Born in England and raised in Manitoba, PHILIP SLAYTON is a Canadian lawyer and writer. He is the best-selling author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, among other books, including Nothing Left to Lose. A Rhodes Scholar, he has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and President of PEN Canada. Married to writer Cynthia Wine, he lives in Toronto and Nova Scotia.