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Zohran Mamdani and Strategic Islamophobia

Sarah Eltantawi
August 18, 2025

Islamophobia is one of the ideological currents that significantly undergirds our current world order . . . and Zohran Mamdani’s election disrupts the flow of that ideological current.

Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and White Nationalism as Racism and Antisemitism

Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council
March 13, 2025May 6, 2025

The Heritage Foundation provoked widespread outrage with the publication of their Project 2025, a policy agenda that targets immigrants and…

Photo of authors Ben Lorber and Shane Burley with cover image of their book Safety through Solidarity.

Safety through Solidarity: A Book Launch

Contending Modernities
January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is central to fighting back.

Photo of white flags on a Notre Dame quad in memory of Palestinian children killed since October 2023.

Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Gaza: A Lecture with Raz Segal

Contending Modernities
December 17, 2024December 18, 2024

How do scholars distinguish genocide? What does intentionality, defense, and the Holocaust have to do with it?

After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Series: Theology after Gaza

Atalia Omer
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.

Breaking With Formation: The Jew as Reactionary in American Media

Benjamin Balthaser
August 20, 2024September 30, 2024

The difference between the Jewishness of Sanders’s candidacy and Shapiro’s has less to do with who is more Jewish; it has a great deal to do with the way the idea of Jewishness has been constructed in the last few decades.

Antisemitism and Other Hates

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Dania Straughan
May 23, 2024September 30, 2024

The contemporary weaponization of antisemitism is the realization of an ethno-religious state project that purports the only way to imagine Jewish community is as an exclusionary political project predicated on the domination of Palestinians.

Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022March 19, 2024

The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.

Israeli Apartheid and Its Apologists

Raz Segal
March 31, 2022February 1, 2024

The weaponization of the discourse of antisemitism is a crude and cruel distortion: abusing the historical struggle of a vulnerable people, Jews, under attack by powerful states to blur the attack of a state, Israel, against a vulnerable people, Palestinians.

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