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Why are We Still Talking about the “Clash of Civilizations”? Anne Norton and the Search for the Andalusias of Modernity

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Atalia Omer
January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Norton’s book illuminates the dynamics of sexual politics and how they operate to exclude, securitize, and otherize Muslims.

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What Friends Are For

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle
Sabine von Mering
March 4, 2022

Ultimately, politicians are not able to initiate peace from the top down. Peace can only come from the bottom up.

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The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle
Hannah Tzuberi and Nahed Samour
February 22, 2022

The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.

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Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews? (With Afterthoughts on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Palestinian Jews)

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Moshe Behar
September 8, 2021September 23, 2021

The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

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On Disloyalty and Dual Loyalty: Is President Trump a Brandeisean Zionist?

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Shaul Magid
August 28, 2019September 16, 2019

Trump’s comment on Jews’ “great disloyalty” wasn’t accusing Jews of dual loyalty; in fact, he was suggesting Jews are not exercising dual loyalty enough.

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Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

Gil Hochberg
January 26, 2019February 20, 2019

Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?

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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

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Modernity as Theater of the Absurd

Series: Jerusalem
Atalia Omer
May 18, 2018October 4, 2018

The embassy ceremony in Jerusalem embodied the merging of the cynical, ideological, and eschatological as well as Islamophobia (orientalism), Zionism, and antisemitism.

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Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

Series: Jerusalem
Stephanie Saldaña
January 17, 2018January 19, 2018

For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly.

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