Publications on Antisemitism and Delegitimization

Read the INSS Strategic Analysis for 2023

The international system is struggling with many crises and challenges, led by the continued efforts at economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis while coping with the pandemic itself; the intensifying competition between the United States and China, which heightens the divisiveness in the international dynamic; and the climate crisis, which tests the ability to cooperate despite disagreements. The US administration has less attention for the Middle East, and is restoring human rights considerations to a central place in its policy,...

The strategic assessment for Israel for 2021 is shaped by significant uncertainty in three principal areas: the level of success in coping with COVID-19; the modus operandi and policies of the new administration in the United States; and the political developments in Israel. The current assessment is based on a broader conception of national security, which places greater weight than in the past on the domestic arena and on threats to internal stability, social cohesion, values, and fabric of life. This of course does not detract...

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

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...

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...

The strategic assessment for Israel for 2021 is shaped by significant uncertainty in three principal areas: the level of success in coping with COVID-19; the modus operandi and policies of the new administration in the United States; and the political developments in Israel. The current assessment is based on a broader conception of national security, which places greater weight than in the past on the domestic arena and on threats to internal stability, social cohesion, values, and fabric of life. This of course does not detract...