Prof. Dina Porat, the founder and former head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry; Dr. Giovanni Quer, the project manager at the Kantor Center; and Adv. Talia Naamat analyze the status of the working definition of antisemitism five years after its adoption by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), and offer a close examination of the main criticism and responses to it.
Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld, who holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University and is the director of the university’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, shares his insights on contemporary antisemitism in the United States and its alarming rise, based on his yearslong research and expertise in the field.
Shahar Eilam, head of the research project on contemporary antisemitism in the US at the INSS, and Tom Eshed, a research assistant with the project, examine the wave of antisemitic events in the US in May 2021, during and immediately after Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls. Based on these events, they analyze various and broad aspects of antisemitism in the US and their effect on the American Jewish community and on Israel.
Tom Eshed, a research assistant at the INSS project on “Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States,” examines how various government entities, law enforcement agencies, and civil society organizations collect and monitor data about antisemitism in the United States. He analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of each method and suggests how to responsibly use the various monitoring tools.
Stephen H. Norwood, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and an expert on the American left, examines the phenomenon of antisemitism in the US in the context of the radical left, and analyzes how certain political movements adopted antisemitic stereotypes as part of their ideology from the end of the 19th century until now
Lior Sirkis, a research assistant in the “Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States” research project of the INSS, examines the media coverage of the phenomenon of Antisemitism in the United States during 2020, which was full of tumultuous events. By analyzing the media coverage of the topic by mainstream American and Israeli online print media, she presents the main trends that reflect the public discourse in this field and at the same time helps in shaping it.
Eli Lederhendler, Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the chair of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, examines the phenomenon of Antisemitism in the United States in the context of American social history and analyzes how the phenomenon has developed in the United States over the past hundred years, emphasizing the main formative events and counter reactions by the American Jewish community.
Stephanie Hausner, the former managing director of the Israel Action Network at the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), and Rebecca Caspi, the senior vice-president for global operations of the JFNA and the director general of JFNA’s Israel office, discuss the main challenges of contemporary antisemitism for the Jewish communities throughout the United States. They suggest a few leading approaches in combatting the threat, such as improving capabilities for identifying antisemitism, enhancing coordination between Jewish...
This report, produced by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in collaboration with the Jewish Agency for Israel, examines and analyzes the phenomenon of contemporary antisemitism in the political discourse of five major Western European countries—Germany, France, Britain, Spain, and Ireland. The research is based on systematic mapping of public expressions of antisemitism by elected officials, over a period of one year, from late 2019 until late 2020.
The findings indicate that some politicians in Western Europe—on...
Shahar Eilam | Adi Kantor | Tom Eshed | Tal-Or Cohen
Kenneth S. Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) in New York, and the author of The Conflict over The Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate, examines the linkage and tensions between antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and freedom of expression today. Stern outlines his views on lines and gray zones between criticism of Israel and antisemitism, and about if, when and how anti-Zionism is related to contemporary antisemitism in the American context.
Kenneth L. Marcus, the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, analyzes the complicated challenges of dealing with antisemitic manifestations within the educational institutions in the United States as well as the comprehensive role of education in addressing antisemitism. As the former US assistant secretary of Education for Civil Rights (twice), Marcus reviews the long path that educators, administrators and the federal government went through in addressing the challenge so far and suggests...
Dr. Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), underscores the role of antisemitic concepts and rhetoric in the ideology and activities of major far-right groups in the United States, just after extreme right-wing groups, stormed Capitol Hill the day Congress certified Joe Biden as President-Elect. Dr. Beirich outlines the theoretical and organizational evolution of antisemitism amid the ranks of America’s right-wing extremists.
