A provocative study of opposition to antiSemitism in contemporary political philosophy.In postHolocaust philosophy antiSemitism has come to be seen as a paradigmatic political and ideological evil. Jews Out of the Question examines the role that opposition to antiSemitism has played in shaping contemporary political philosophy. Elad Lapidot argues that postHolocaust philosophy identifies the fundamental epistemological evil of antiSemitic thought not in thinking against Jews but in thinking of Jews. In other words what philosophy denounces as antiSemitic is the figure of the Jew in thought. Lapidot reveals how paradoxically opposition to antiSemitism has generated a rejection of Jewish thought in postHolocaust philosophy. Through critical readings of political philosophers such as Adorno Horkheimer Sartre Arendt Badiou and Nancy the book contends that by rejecting Jewish thought the opposition to antiSemitism comes dangerously close to antiSemitism itself and at work in this rejection is a problematic understanding of the relations between politics and thoughta troubling political epistemology. Lapidots critique of this political epistemology is the books ultimate aim.