User:Wikidgood/sandboxwistrichcompromise

Wistrich's work is respected for comprehensive scope and its depth, but highly controversial with regard to its conclusion and tone. It is difficult to objectively evaluate the relative importance of different commentators because of vastly different base assumptions about the nature of the linkage between anti-Semitism and Nazism and because of his unique perspective. Even individual critics present dichotomous evaluations. For instance,Walter Laqueur's review of Wistrich's latest book contains laudatory language.

   "It would be difficult to think of a more competent author than Wistrich, head of a Jerusalem research institute, who has given decades to the study of the subject and has a good knowledge of recent European history and languages, and particularly of Nazism" and "Wistrich's facts are all true".

ndeed, he states that

   "Wistrich's volume is a monumental, encyclopedic survey of the new wave of anti-Semitism"

and Yet that same author Walter Laquer, writing in the Washington Post, contended that Wistrich may

   "misinterpret the line between self-hatred and self-criticism"

His participation in the film Obsession drew (*)criticism from various parties such as REINSERT AUTHOR & CITATION writing in (**) Tikkun, who went so far as to lament what he characterized as "Wistrich’s journey from scholarship to propaganda. A Lethal Obsession reads as if it had been sponsored by AIPAC or Likud..."