Antisemitism - Science topic

The „Right-Wing Extremism Barometer“ is an online survey (CAWI), conducted from the end of April 2024 to the end of May 2024 by the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in Austria. The sample, which originates from an online access panel of the opinion research institute marketagent, comprises 2,198 people sampled to be representative...

SITES OF TENSION OF MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE Many researchers, among them Jacques Le Goff, have stressed the significance of memory of the past as a determinant in the struggle for power and in creating collective identities. This text evolved on the basis of qualitative studies undertake...

In Germany, debates about antisemitism among Muslims are increasingly being framed on distorted premises. The Alternative for Germany, in particular, portrays antisemitism as an ‘imported’ enmity from the Middle East that is deeply rooted in the Islamic religion. This perspective suggests a simple explanation for the origins of antisemitism among M...

This book offers a historical overview of European antisemitism and its Romanian manifestation—a phenomenon that shaped the mental framework enabling the outbreak of genocidal violence during the Second World War. Part I ("European Antisemitism") provides a comprehensive historical analysis, identifying five distinct forms of antisemitism, categori...

Polls for the past several decades indicate high regard for Jews in democracies in Western Europe and North American. We however have a limited understanding of the properties underlying those poll responses, for instance whether response bias or nonattitudes account for those results. The nonattitudes perspective suggests that respondents’ survey...

Antisemitism has been rising for decades and worsened following the events of Oct 7, 2023. Although anecdotal evidence suggests that these trends extend into the US medical community, quantitative data have been lacking. To address this gap, we quantitated publications about antisemitism, analyzed social media posts from the accounts of 220,405 hea...

Kurzfassung Der Massenmord vom 7. Oktober 2023, die militärischen Reaktionen Israels sowie das weltweite Echo auf beide Vorgänge haben Manifestationen der Judenfeindschaft gezeitigt. Damit stellt sich zum wiederholten Mal das Problem antijüdischer und antisemitischer Tendenzen innerhalb migrantischer Gemeinschaften, die aus islamischen Ländern stam...

On October 7, 2023, a Hamas-led terrorist attack in Israel killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped about 250 others. The almost immediate spread of news and images of the attack produced heavy emotional reactions in public opinion in many countries. The article analyzes data from a representative survey on the attitudes toward Jews and Muslims of Itali...

This article explores the argument that antisemitism and anti-Americanism in France are linked to each other in a causal manner. Specifically, it addresses the oft-encountered suggestion that the two prejudices move in tandem with each other, and in such a way that the anterior one (antisemitism) effectively “causes” the latter one (anti-Americanis...

This research aims to analyze how Jewish identity is constructed in the West and the East, as represented in the graphic novels Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner and The Last Jew in Penang by Zayn Gregory and Arif Rafhan , using Halliday's multimodal approach. This approach focuses on various modes of communication, such as verbal, visual, gestural, and...

An intellectual and personal autobiographical essay that explains the factors that triggered the author’s interest in the study of Jews and antisemitism in South Asia, the region to which he belongs, traces his academic journey and explores its overlaps with his personal life, his multi-religious and multiethnic background and connections to family...

This article explores the overlooked response from the Jewish press to the first 1903 edition of what became known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion during the period when a second edition became public in 1905. The study recovers and analyzes a public apology that its second publisher wrote to the Jewish people, caricatures, and carnivalesque...

Sintesi L'antisemitismo ha attraversato molte epoche storiche e regioni geografiche, assumendo forme diverse, dai pregiudizi antichi ai moderni discorsi d'odio online. Oggi le comunità ebraiche continuano a confrontarsi con sfide crescenti, tra cui un recente aumento degli episodi di antisemitismo in tutto il mondo. Dopo gli eventi del 7 ottobre,...

Executive summary Antisemitism has persisted across historical periods and geographical regions, manifesting itself in different forms, from ancient prejudices to modern online hate speech. Today, Jewish communities face ongoing challenges, including a recent spike in antisemitic incidents worldwide. Following the events of 7 October, there has be...

This volume originated from a lecture on the decolonisation of art history in Ukraine, delivered at the Central Institute of Art History in Munich. It took place three months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This event wasn't the first time art history reacted to catastrophic political decisions and resulting wars. Max Dvořák...

Zusammenfassung Die Studie untersucht, welche Formen der Missachtung Jüdinnen und Juden in Deutschland erfahren. Zwischen Oktober 2021 und Februar 2023 wurden 21 problemzentrierte Interviews geführt. Die Anerkennungstheorien von Honneth und Taylor sowie die Arbeiten von Goffman und Margalit dienen als Heuristik zur Interpretation der unterschiedlic...

When violence erupted around a soccer match in Amsterdam this week between fans of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch club Ajax, Western media outlets rushed to frame it mostly as an antisemitic attack on Israeli fans. But a closer examination of the coverage reveals troubling patterns in how racial violence is reported; not only is anti-Arab...

What happens when someone ignorant of their Jewish heritage uncovers the truth in dramatic circumstances? This article focuses on and advocates for further analysis of an unstudied discrete phenomenon: ‘the moment of discovery’ in early twentieth century Germany and Austria. The article's four empirical sections analyse various facets of this momen...

Zusammenfassung Es werden Ergebnisse einer von März bis Mai 2022 durchgeführten Online-Befragung einer bundesweit repräsentativen Einwohnermeldeamtsstichprobe von N = 3.270 jungen Menschen im Alter von 16 bis 21 Jahren zur Verbreitung und sozialen Verteilung klassischer Formen antisemitischer Einstellungen unter Jugendlichen und Heranwachsenden in...

Alternative news media, which opposes mainstream news media, has been utilised by the far right to proliferate their ideology. This study explores how the scale of discussion, and negative framing, of different groups that are commonly targeted by the far right changes over time. Taking 7089 articles published by a prominent Australian far-right al...

Local or national politics can be a catalyst for potentially dangerous hate speech. But with a third of the world’s population eligible to vote in 2024 elections, we need an understanding of how individual-level hate multiplies up to the collective global scale. We show, based on the most recent U.S. presidential election, that offline events are a...

Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism https://criticalzionismstudies.org/jcsz-volume-1-issue-1-fall-2024/

In recent years, as Japanese cultural symbols have gained global visibility, certain traditional figures from folklore have been misinterpreted by international audiences. One such example is the Nigawarai, a yokai (supernatural creature) from Japanese folklore, which has mistakenly been perceived by some as a form of antisemitic caricature. Nigawa...

This article highlights a collection of ideas with an underlying deceptive simplicity that addresses several practical challenges in computational social science and generative AI safety. These ideas lead to (1) an interpretable and quantifiable framework for political polarization; (2) a language identifier robust to noisy social media text settin...

Louis-Ferdinand Céline stands as one of the most brilliant yet controversial figures in 20th-century literature. His groundbreaking novel Voyage au bout de la nuit transformed the literary landscape with its colloquial style, stream-of-consciousness narrative, and stark portrayal of human suffering and existential despair. Céline’s influence on mod...

On Qatari Engagement with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood Elements The situation regarding Qatar's engagement with groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood embodies the intricate dance of political, ideological, and religious elements. From a philosophical standpoint, we ought to question the underlying motivations that drive a nation to engage...

A draft for a possible article/chapter on E. Nesbit and Semitism. One of the three central projects I am at present working on is a book about race and fantasy fiction. Thus far, I have written this, a chapter on Pullman, 'gyptians, and the problem of daemons for narratives of race, and I have begun a chapter on Roma, architecture and The Hunchback...

Cette contribution explore la production dramatique de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, constituée de deux pièces écrites en 1927 (L’Église et Progrès). En particulier, l’étude enquête la fonction du théâtre pour l’écrivain, à travers une analyse littéraire des deux pièces. Cette production est une première tentative de dénonciation sociale, une critique qu...

The notion of Jewish immorality is a stereotype which ascribes to Jews complete alienation from, contempt for and deliberate acting against the common-sense norms of morality. The concept of immorality is anchored in the religious and early Christian view on the rival religion. Portraying Jews as alien to the type of moral constraints which bind ot...

The representation of Jews as foreigners or strangers—or simply the Other—constitutes the oldest stereotype on which all antisemitic stereotypes and other concepts are built. While many different groups and peoples have been and are conceptualised as “the other,” Jews and Judaism can be understood as “the paradigmatic other.” The movement of Jewish...

Whilst antisemitic stereotypes and analogies aim at a generalising and essentialising attribution of negative characteristics to Jewish entities (thus, from the non-Jewish in-group to the Jewish out-group), the communicative strategies of Relativisation and denial of antisemitism only indirectly refer to Jewish entities by denying or reinterpreting...

Holocaust Distortion Holocaust Distortion differs from Denial in that it recognises the Holocaust's genocidal character in principle (or at least seeks to give that impression). However, it relativises the historical facts, which is tantamount to a partial denial. The forms of relativisation can be assigned to two basic fields according to their st...

Despite spanning only around 12 years, the Nazi regime bequeathed the modern world a vast and horrific legacy, with which its successor regimes, but also culture and politics writ large, need to contend to this very day. The national-socialist ideology and institutions are intimately tied to antisemitism and to the Holocaust, as the extermination o...

The classic antisemitic topos of blood libel has a history spanning many centuries and still looms large in the present-day antisemitic discourse. The claim that Jews kidnap non-Jewish children in order to abuse and kill them in the religious rite of human sacrifice (especially around the Jewish holidays of Passover and Purim) paints a grotesque pi...

A depiction of Israel as a terrorist state is a generalised, essentialising description in which the state in its entirety is classed as a terrorist entity, and thus by definition excluded from the global community of legitimate nation-states. To accuse Israel of being a terrorist state is therefore to portray it as inherently evil and a potential...

The claim that Israel has, is or intends to commit genocide upon the Palestinian population across the Middle East is one of the most incendiary charges that can be made of the Jewish state. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN in 1948, defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy...

This concept is rooted in the antisemitic imaginary of a—at least partial—Jewish guilt in the preparation and execution of the Holocaust. This stereotype, like many others, decontextualises and distorts historical facts in order to either exonerate the real perpetrators of the Holocaust—the German Nazi state and its actual collaborators—and ascribe...

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the revitalization of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States (U.S.), and rising antisemitism in Eastern Europe during the same period prompted a rapid increase in the U.S. Jewish population. The simultaneity of these historic events naturally proposes an inquiry into the role of Judaism and the...

While antisemitic stereotypes ascribe generalised negative characteristics to Jews, blame for antisemitism goes further by holding Jews responsible for the hatred expressed towards them. It is claimed that Jews trigger antisemitism through their behaviour and actions or, in particular, through actions of Israel and/or those associated with Zionism....

When Israel as a state or the policies of its government are compared to past colonial projects, the academic and historical dimension of debates about the concept and history of colonialism are overshadowed by the political uses and meanings ascribed to the concept today. Rather than an exploration of the complex historical relationship between Is...

The idea that the existence and actions of the State of Israel are the sole cause of conflict and violence in the Middle East is one of the most common concepts in contemporary antisemitic discourse. The roots of this concept lie in the classical stereotype that Jews are to be blamed for antisemitism of which they are a victim, that is, that Jewish...

Boycott efforts against Israel as part of the political conflict between Arabs and Jews in the region have a long history. Boycotts were organised at the Fifth Palestine Arab Congress, during the Arab Revolt in Palestine, at the World Islamic Congress, the Bloudan Conference and by the Arab League. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement...

A history of antisemitism is a history of the virality of fear and prejudice; and the main driver of that virality was the narrative of a nefarious conspiracy led by Jews to destroy society. Going beyond a purely descriptive definition—an assertion of the existence of a covertly operating group of people who seek to manipulate the course of events—...

A threat is a warning that something negative or violent will happen to a person or group, especially if a particular action or order is not followed. Through this action, the speaker aims at eliciting fear in the target in order to lead them to act in a certain way. More precisely, the fear is caused by the fact that threats “involve a harm of som...

The accusation that Jews instrumentalise antisemitism contends that Jews seek to deliberately exploit concern about antisemitism in order to benefit, either financially or politically. Accusations that Jews seek to instrumentalise the Holocaust suggest that they attempt to use the memory of the Holocaust as a tool to obtain power, wealth or to furt...

Victimhood is a complex notion, embedded into a variety of cultural norms and practices. It can be argued that the victim has become a central identity position in modern politics, which cuts across all ideologies. It constitutes a major gateway to social engagement, a pivotal means by which groups and individuals perceive themselves and constitute...

Far from being a purely theoretical construct, anti-Jewish prejudice has also been inscribed into the very materiality of Jewish bodies, through a host of tropes and metaphors drawing on representations of physical corruption and repulsiveness. The pathologisation of the Jewish body predates biological antisemitism and has roots in Medieval antisem...

Evil The alleged evil or malicious nature of Jews, Judaism and/or Jewish institutions is one of the most deeply rooted and enduring antisemitic stereotypes. Here, Jews are depicted as posing a constant, large-scale, destructive—even cosmic or eschatological—threat posed to a specific society, or all humankind. The historic roots of this stereotype...

Greed The association of Jews with money, and the depiction of Jews as a uniquely greedy and rapacious people, is one of the oldest of antisemitic myths. Writings, speeches and imagery portraying Jews as grasping, avaricious and miserly, ever ready to lie and trick their way to a profit, and willing to sacrifice all morality in pursuit of riches, c...

An antisemitic curse is essentially an amplified form of a threat, since it bases its violent desire on the explicit or implicit intervention of a higher power (also in the form of destiny, fate, predestination, cosmic justice) and is thus operating on a supra-individual level. A curse expresses a wish for misfortune to someone, or more specificall...

An antisemitic death wish is an ultimate form of a threat or curse, by virtue of an explicit, implicit, violent or non-violent reference to the death or destruction of Jews or Israelis, with the possible target also being the State of Israel or Zionism. Threats and curses express the suggestion or wish that something detrimental will, or should, ha...

Even though freedom of speech, which constitutes a pillar of many countries’ constitutions, allows any individual to say and believe in whatever they wish, it is a common consensus that it does not include the right to incite to violence or lawless actions. In the case of antisemitism, according to the IHRA definition, “calling for, aiding, or just...

The stereotype of disintegration is conceived as the Jewish tendency for “activity directed towards separation or destruction” of a community or state. Originally used to designate chemical or biological processes that oppose the process of “composition,” the expression underwent a change of meaning when linguistic images of such processes were pro...

The stereotype that questions or denies the loyalty of Jews includes accusations of disloyalty to the home country or to non-Jews, insinuations of divided loyalty between the home country and Israel, of being more loyal to Israel or of being loyal exclusively to Israel, and finally accusations of being loyal first and foremost or only to Jews. Othe...

The two contradictory elements of antisemitic narratives portray Jews as inferior and lesser on the one hand, and influential or powerful on the other. The stereotype of Jewish privilege highlights the latter aspect: it fosters the idea that Jews, Israelis or the State of Israel enjoy a certain amount of advantage over others, and that they benefit...

This is a response to Giorgio Agamben’s blog-post, “the End of Judaism.” After parsing his argument that the State of Israel and Zionism are “the double negation” of Judaism as a condition of diaspora and exile and a betrayal of “the very essence of Judaism.” I consider the relationship between diaspora and return in Jewish history. I respond to th...

Holocaust-related rejection of guilt ( Schuldabwehr ) is an argumentative strategy that aims to absolve three groups of people from guilt: (1) perpetrators, (2) people who benefited from the Holocaust (3) those who did not oppose the Holocaust. The rejection of one’s own guilt or that of others serves as a moral and legal exoneration. It seeks to m...

The denial of Israel’s right to exist—either as a nation-state at all, a self-identified Jewish state or Jewish-majority state—is one of the most common antisemitic concepts today, and at the same time one of the most controversial. The denial of Israel’s right to exist, or the denial of the Jewish right to self-determination should be distinguishe...

The notion that “Jews have too much power” has been a recurring theme in the history of antisemitism. This belief persists today, as evidenced by a 2023 survey conducted by the ADL, which revealed that over 20% of Americans subscribe to the idea that “Jews have too much power in the United States.” Additionally, nearly a quarter of all respondents...

The accusation of a Jewish tendency to lie takes two distinct forms: one, in which Jews allegedly assert the untruth with regard to themselves—in which their own traits of character, values, intentions, etc. are distorted (= hypocrisy)—and two, lies that concern the whole external world and non-Jewish groups (= mendacity). In contrast to the allega...

In 1892, one of France’s leading antisemitic agitators, Edouard Drumont, launched a new political newspaper which swiftly became the principal organ for disseminating conspiracy narratives and Jew-hatred. Its name was significant: La Libre Parole (“Free Speech”). The choice of such a title sheds light on a crucial dimension of the antisemitic imagi...

Demands for closure,” “drawing a line under” or a “clean break” ( Schlussstrich ) from the Nazi past are a constitutive mode of post-Holocaust antisemitism. They were and are used to express the wish that the remembrance of the Holocaust should be ended, the confrontation with (Nazi) antisemitism discontinued and payments to the victims stopped. De...

The stereotype of Jewish vengefulness refers to the supposed irrational, misanthropic, egoistic drive to punish those who they perceive as having wronged them. This drive is allegedly accompanied by bitterness, intolerance and hate against non-Jewish society. The stereotype relies on the idea that there is a fundamental difference between the Old T...

Nazi Analogy The nazi analogy draws comparisons between Israel (as the present-day ‘perpetrator concept’) and Germany during the Nazi period (as the historical ‘perpetrator concept’). By making such comparisons, Israel is demonised and singled out, being associated with a regime that committed unprecedented atrocities. According to this accusation,...

Treating Jews, Jewish practices or institutions with a double standard, purely on the basis of their Jewishness, is to discriminate against them. The application of these double standards to Jews can be overt—denying Jews alone certain political, economic or civil rights—or more subtle. Double standards might take the form of stricter regulation on...

Apartheid Analogy Accusations of apartheid today constitute one of the strongest moral condemnations a modern nation-state can face. The use of the concept of “apartheid” or “apartheid state” to describe Israel is one of the most common forms of denouncing the Jewish state in contemporary discourse, both in reference to contemporary Israel policies...

Applying generalisations to an individual or a group based on their background—be it national, ethnic, religious or any other—is a common cognitive and discursive mechanism at the base of any stereotyping; it is also not unusual to blame the whole group for the faults or misdeeds of one of its members. While such sweeping assumptions are undeniably...

An antisemitic insult generally aims at offending, disqualifying and diminishing Jews or Israelis on the basis of, or related to, their Jewish or Israeli identity, against whom the speaker expresses their negative emotions. Insults can be considered a threatening speech act like threats, curses and death wishes. Yet, the goal of insults is not to e...

The stereotype of admonishers accuses Jews or Israelis of (1) practising Holocaust remembrance excessively and making exaggerated claims in this regard against the German or Austrian society (or other societies which collaborated in the Holocaust), and (2) raising inflationary accusations of antisemitism. Both insinuations are linked to the claim t...

For many years, the malaria community appears to have stumbled and fumbled along in its effort to control malaria with varying results that have often been ineffective. This article makes the suggestion the malaria community has appeared to avoid studying or applying methods that are acknowledged to have been successful in Palestine 100 years ago....

The assertion that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism” has gained significant traction in contemporary political discourse, particularly as it relates to critiques of Israel and its policies. This argument suggests that opposing Zionism— the political ideology supporting the establishment and continuation of a Jewish homeland in Israel—often veers into...

I establish two contrasting results: 1. In his first career as surgeon, François Quesnay was antisemitic. 2. Nothing allows to say that his economic system was antisemitic. Very few antisemitic remarks are found in the plethora of books and articles written by his pupils.

The idea that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism" has become a prominent and controversial assertion in modern political and academic discourse. While Zionism, the political movement advocating for a Jewish homeland, emerged in the late 19th century, opposition to it, termed anti-Zionism, developed alongside it. Historically, anti-Zionism was seen as a...

The Haavara Agreement, signed in 1933 between Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany, was a controversial and pragmatic solution that allowed for the emigration of German Jews to Palestine amidst escalating persecution. This agreement facilitated the transfer of Jewish assets to Palestine through the purchase of German goods, providing...

I apply the apparatus of my book Definition (2021) to the task of defining antisemitism. An initial stipulation introduced the word ‘Semitismus’ into the German language as a synonym for ‘Judenthum’ (‘Jewishness’). I raise two objections to this stipulation. First, the choice of term risked what Ennis calls ‘impact equivocation’, since it could eas...

This article explores the economic and psychological impact of the Great Depression on the American population, emphasizing the rise of antisemitism during the 1930s. We begin with a historical overview of the economic downturn following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, with an emphasis on the ensuing unemployment and social despair. We argue that th...

Social media users, oftentimes daily, are exposed to a collection of algorithmic feeds that ultimately shape their perceptions and insights around themselves, their surroundings, and issues of the day. This study introduces the concept of lived-feed experience to describe these offline personalized insights from collective online experiences with v...

This scholarly inquiry delves into Wyndham Lewis’s The Jews Are They Human? (1939), a pro-Semitic book through the lens of Nathan Waddell’s ideologies, which focuses on the intersection of literature, politics, and cultural criticism during the rise of fascism. Waddell’s scholarship highlights how Lewis’s work navigates the complex terrain of fasci...

During the Second World War, several thousands of Jews from France were detained on German territory as prisoners of war. Although many endured racial discrimination, they survived. This article will deal with this exceptional as well as largely unknown micro-history through the thorny issue of the recognition of their status as racial victims in t...

This research addresses the concerning influence of far-right extremism on pupils in England, highlighting risks leading to potential radicalisation and violent extremism. Conducted through focus groups at the national RE conference ‘RExChange 2022’, the study explores whether and how far-right extremism should be integrated into the Religious Educ...

The far-right identification of Jews with modernity has been noted by many scholars, yet most analyses have fallen short of offering a properly dialectical account of antisemitism, one that will scrutinise the antinomies at the heart of the antisemitic discourse and trace their relations to the contradictions of modernity itself. In this paper, I w...

This article analyzes the affective economy of West Germany's postwar society. After delineating the intellectual history of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research's “Gruppenexperiment,” which consisted of 137 group interviews with different segments of West German society, my article focuses on one transcript of a 1950 group discussion of you...

Israel’s war on Gaza following 7 October 2023 has given birth to several political and social changes in European nations. According to the United Nations Report of the Special Rapporteur, Israel has used this moment to “distort” international humanitarian law principles “in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people...

The 2023/2024 war in Gaza is testing Catholic–Jewish relations. It uncovers three layers of tension in the Church’s relationship with the Jewish people and the State of Israel: First, the differences in the Catholic historical interpretation of the Hamas attack and the war in Gaza in respect to the Jewish one. Second, a theological tension between...

The Oberammergau Passion Play – arguably the largest and longest-running Passion Play tradition in the world – depicts Jesus’ arrest, conviction and crucifixion at a spellbinding scale. It has also been at the centre of a controversy regarding its historic antisemitism and its efforts to reform, having engaged a director with a zeal for radically c...

Institutional antisemitism is a growing concern across university campuses in the United States of America. Research shows that academic environments do not always welcome Jewish presence and needs. Though contemporary studies examine student lived experiences of antisemitism, few Jewish scholarly perspectives are included in related inquiries. A q...

Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Forschungsstand in der Bildungsmedienforschung untersucht dieser Beitrag Darstellungen des Judentums in Schulbüchern der Sekundarstufe I für den katholischen und evangelischen Religions- sowie den Werte-und-Normen-Unterricht in Niedersachsen. Genauer behandelt der Beitr...

Teaching and education mirror what societies want to preserve, initiate, and pass along. Thus, the impact of teachers and school textbooks cannot be overestimated. It is absolutely necessary, therefore, to ensure high-quality textbooks, which convey balanced views as well as intellectual and unbiased approaches to the topics. The present study by h...

Where in the world is Sinwar's Ummi (Mommy)? Like the computer game "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" But wait-No one seems to know if Sinwar's mother is dead or alive and if dead when did she die? The last item that surfaces in Google is a story written in Le Monde in May 2024. There's a paywall there so I couldn't access it. https://www.le...

In my engagement with Richard Saull’s important work Capital, Race and Space, I focus on the nexus between belief in conspiracy theories and right-wing radicalization. I want to suggest that a conspiracy theory is a particular form of social imaginary. In this case, the social imaginaries that lend themselves to right-wing or fascistic political mo...

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Mixed-Methods-Studie untersucht die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in Deutschland lebender Jüdinnen und Juden zum Thema des politisch-islamischen Antisemitismus sowie zur gesellschaftlichen Debatte um „importierten Antisemitismus“. Anhand eines Survey-Experiments (n = 295) zeigt der Beitrag zunächst, dass die Bedrohu...

Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876-1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polis...

On June 15th, 1934, interns at Montreal’s Notre Dame Hospital initiated Canada’s first medical strike in protest of the appointment of Dr. Samuel Rabinovitch, a French-speaking Jewish graduate of Université de Montréal, as chief intern. By June 16th, the strike had spread to 75 more interns from Hôpital de la Miséricorde, Sainte-Justine, Hôtel-Dieu...

Antisemitism legislation has long sparked debate over the balance between protecting minority communities and preserving free speech rights. From Soviet-era laws that criminalized antisemitic speech as a tool of political control to modern American legislation aimed at combating hate, these laws reflect a clash of ideals that raises profound questi...

While almost 80 years have passed since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, teaching and researching the Holocaust remains relevant due to the rise of antisemitism and intolerance towards other religions on a global scale. Teaching and researching the Holocaust can serve as a powerful example to impart valuable lessons to younger genera...

Richard Nixon’s presidency is often remembered for its foreign policy achievements and the scandal that led to his resignation. However, his private remarks about Jewish influence in media and politics, revealed in the infamous Nixon Tapes, have sparked ongoing debate about the intersection of personal biases and public policy. This paper revisits...