by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The following excerpts were taken with the author’s permission from this article“As pro- and anti-Trump movements jockey to realize their agendas, the question of Jews and whiteness illustrates the high stakes—and dangers—of racialized politics. Over time, Jews have...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Fahad Ali, medical student and president of the Students for Palestine Society at the University of Sydney. Article here. “All I know of my country is through song and story, through books, faded photographs, my grandmother’s heavy sighs and an...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Yael W.On Antisemitism is a timely collection of writings given the current increase in popularity and organisation of the Right and far Right. The work is relevant not only given the overt antisemitism from the far Right in Western countries, but also in light of...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Written by Robert Börjesson, translated by Yael W. Originally published here.They survived the concentration camps- now Nazis are demonstrating outside their synagogue.Nordic Resistance movement- Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen (NMR)This Nazi organisation NMR was given...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Jonah BoyarinOriginally published on jewschool.com August 17, 2017, and reproduced with permission.Jewish FearJewish fear is American Neo-Nazis chanting “Blood and Soil” on American soil.Jewish fear is that buzzing feeling in our bones that won’t let us sleep at...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Ann Elizabeth FinkIn Israel, the son of the Prime Minister of the Jewish State, Yair Netanyahu, posts an image on his Facebook page that is laden with antisemitic imagery. He draws an equivalence between what he refers to as far-right “scum” and leftist...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Tallie Ben DanielChapter from On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, Haymarket 2017, 71-80 and footnotes. Reproduced with permission. You can purchse your copy here. As a Mizrahi Jewish person, I am often shocked by...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Can you start by telling us how it was that Jews against fascism was formed?In April 2015 Melbourne saw the largest street mobilisation of the far right for decades when Reclaim Australia held their rally. This was also one of the largest counter rallies that was held...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Tony KlugThis paper was delivered at the Pears International Conference on Zionism and Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London, 25 May 2017. Also available to be listened to online here.In this talk, I pose the question of whether there is a connection between...
by AJDS | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
– Jews and revolutionary JewsFrom the Facebook group ‘juives et juifs révolutionnaires’ 1) If you think the words “Israel”, “Zionists” and “Jews” are interchangeable; you may be antisemitic.2) If you think that a Jewish...