Studying Antisemitism - Previous Classes & Readings

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Antisemitism Study Group

BK’s communal need to study antisemitism continues. 

Questions? Email our facilitators.

Readings:

April 15, 2024
Antisemitism and The Logic of Whiteness 

and the response The Baggage of Whiteness 

April 29, 2024
Antisemitism’s Threat to Democracy
by Deborah Lipstadt 

"Why The Most Educated People In America Fall For Anti-Semitic Lies"
by Dara Horn

May 20, 2024
"An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left"
by Kathleen Hayes, Fathom

"I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice."
by John McWhorter, The New York Times

"Student activists aren’t antisemites; they’re partners in a dance of death."
by Jay Michaelson, The Forward

June 10, 2024
Examining the Roots of Antisemitism in the Middle East and Black America\

Antisemitism in the Middle East: Unpacking the Root Causes and Implications for Regional Stability | Program on Extremism | The George Washington University (gwu.edu)

Black Antisemitism in America: Past and Present | INSS

June 24, 2024

IHRA non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism

Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism. Except When It Is.
Andrew Silow-Carroll, NY Jewish Week

The Jerusalem Declaration On Antisemitism

When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? A Jewish historian’s perspective
Suzanne Rutland, The Conversation

Optional readings:
Izabella Tabarovsky: The Sinister Legacy of Soviet Anti-Israel Propaganda
Marilyn Stern, Middle East Forum

Criticism of Israel and Antisemitism: How To Tell Where One Ends and the Other Begins
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Medium

November 20, 2024

Doni Remba, Bnai Keshet member and teacher,  whose essays appeared in The Nation and other publications, takes a deep dive into Zionism/Anti-Zionism. 

New Reflections on Israel and the New Anti-Semitism

The Nexus Document:Understanding Antisemitism at its Nexus
with Israel and Zionism

T'ruah excerpts

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Excerpts from The Message

Understanding & Dismantling the Machinery of Antisemitism

Understanding how different technologies of antisemitism work, what and who fuels them, who creates and benefits from them, allows us to dismantle them. Over a series of classes and divrey Torah Rabbi Elliott explored definitions and the history of antisemitism, and how it is functioning and being used on the Left, Right and in between.

Readings from:

Part 1: Definitions - February 10, 2024
The Jerusalem Declaration On Antisemitism

T’ruah: A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition

Antisemitism: A Guide To The Perplexed

Part 2: Antisemitism & Israel - March 23, 2024
Skin In The Game. How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism by Eric Ward

Part 3: Antisemitism: Power, Nationalism, Racism and Whiteness - March 30, 2024
“Contemporary Antisemitism” by David Hirsch Chpt. 4. The Routledge History of Antisemitism, Ed. by Mark Weitzman, Robert J. Williams and James Wald. 

Eve Garrard, The pleasures of antisemitism

“The New Antisemitism”, Time Magazine
February 27, 2024, by Noah Feldman

How to Tell When Criticism of Israel is Actually Anti-Semitism
by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Antisemitism in Academia

April 8, 2024

Those of us in universities are struggling with the surge of antisemitism in particular ways, and we can help support each other. We invite BK members working in academia to join us in the sanctuary to share stories and brainstorm solutions.
Reach out to Talia Schaffer for more information