Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Emirita Professor of Government at Smith College. The Idea of the Jewish State by Ben Halpern (her teacher at Brandeis) ...
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei & Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo by https://khamenei.ir/, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence accessible at https ...
Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World” be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. The prevailing paradigm ...
Matthias J. Becker leads the innovative research project Decoding Antisemitism and has for many years been advocating for a new approach to social media studies in the fight against hate speech and ...
Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...