Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do about It

Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do about It

by ReneH. Levy
Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do about It

Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do about It

by ReneH. Levy

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Overview

What is hatred? What is baseless hatred? And how does this basic human emotion affect our relationships, our communities, and our world? In this fascinating study, pharmacological researcher Rene H. Levy looks through a scientific, sociological, and religious lens at the causes and effects of baseless hatred, and offers a prescription for preventing and repairing its damaging consequences. Levy examines the psychological and neurobiological bases of baseless hatred, and shows how it destroys interpersonal relationships. Baseless hatred is understood within Jewish tradition to have been the cause of the longest exile of the Jewish people from the Land of Israel; Levy discusses the impact of baseless hatred – both from without and from within – on the State of Israel, including an analysis of Islamist anti-Zionist hostility and the more recent Western antisemitic opposition as well as the new existential questions posed by the post-Zionist movement. Finally, Levy shows how the cement that has kept the Jewish people united as a nation, known as arevut, "mutual responsibility," proves to be the remedy for the devastating problem of baseless hatred.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789652295880
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
Publication date: 05/20/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 212
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Rene H. Levy is Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutics at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, where he founded the department of pharmaceutics and served as its chair for twentysix years. He was a faculty member of the department of neurological surgery for more than thirty five years. He has published hundreds of research articles mainly in neuropharmacology and co-edited several books. He has been named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He recently received a lifetime achievement award for his work on the treatment of epilepsy. He is married with three children and lives in Seattle.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Acknowledgments 11

Introduction Baseless Hatred: A Subject of Jewish Interest 13

Part 1 Hatred and its Antidote 21

1 Generic Hatred 23

2 Hatred among Jews 35

3 Baseless Hatred: Causes and Consequences 47

4 The Judah Principle: Arevut 67

Part 2 Israel and the Jews 81

5 The 1948 Question: Two Generations 83

6 The "Palestinian Issue": Land Dispute or Islamist Hatred? 107

7 Western Hostility: The New Antisemitism 127

Part 3 Solutions for Hatred 141

8 Reaction to Global Hatred: Arevut Proposal 143

9 How to Prevent Baseless Hatred 159

10 How to Repair Existing Episodes of Baseless Hatred 189

Afterword 205

Bibliography 209

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