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Dr. Elad Ben David is a Research Fellow in the INSS–ISGAP Program in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies. His work focuses on contemporary Islam in the US in the post-9/11 era, with an emphasis on the impact of the October 7 events on Muslim discourse regarding antisemitism and anti-Zionism, US–Israel relations, and Jewish communities. Dr. Ben David earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University, and his dissertation explored Da‘wa (call to Islam) in America in the post-9/11 era. He subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSoC) at Ben-Gurion University, as well as in the “Intertwined Worlds” program at the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies (HLRS). As part of promoting interfaith dialogue, he also served as a fellow at the Blickle Institute in Jerusalem for inter-religious dialogue.
