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On antisemitism, solidarity and the struggle for justice, Jewish Voice for Peace ; foreword by Judith Butler

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On antisemitism

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Jewish Voice for Peace ; foreword by Judith Butler

solidarity and the struggle for justice

The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace. When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false charges of antisemitism or redefining antisemitism can suppress the global progressive fight for justice. There is no one definitive voice on antisemitism and its impact. Jewish Voice for Peace has curated a collection of essays that provides a diversity of perspectives and standpoints. Each contribution explores critical questions concerning uses and abuses of antisemitism in the twenty-first-century, focusing on the intersection between antisemitism, accusations of antisemitism, and Palestinian human rights activism. This anthology provides a much-needed tool for Palestinian solidarity activists, teachers, as well as Jewish communities. Featuring contributions from Omar Barghouti, Judith Butler, and Rebecca Vilkomerson, as well as activists, academics, students, and cultural workers, On Political Solidarity and Justice includes the voices of Palestinian students and activists, and Jews that are often marginalized in mainstream discussions of antisemitism, including Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a national, grassroots organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law for all the people of Israel and Palestine. JVP has over 200,000 online supporters, over sixty chapters, a youth wing, a Rabbinic Council, an Artist Council, an Academic Advisory Council, and an Advisory Board made up of leading U.S. intellectuals and artists.--Publisher website

Foreword / Judith Butler -- Part I: Histories and theories of antisemitism -- Antisemitism redefined: Israel's imagined national narrative of endless external threat / Antony Lerman -- Palestinian activism and Christian antisemitism in the church / Walt Davis -- Black and Palestinian lives matter: Black and Jewish America in the twenty-first century / Chanda Prescod-Weinstein -- Intersections of Antisemitism, raciism and nationalism: a Sphardi/Mizrahi perspective / Ilise Benshushan -- On antisemitism and its uses / Shaul Magid -- Antisemitism, Palestine, and the Mizrahi question / Tallie Ben Daniel -- Part II: Confronting antisemitism and Islamophobia -- Trump, the Alt-right, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia / Arthur Goldwag -- "Our liberation is intertwined": an interview with Linda Sarsour -- Centering our work on challenging Islamophobia / Donna Nevel -- Who am I to speak? / Aurora Levins Morales -- Captured narratives / Rev. Graylan Hagler -- We're here beause you were there": refugee rights advocacy and antisemitism / Rachel Ida Buff -- European antisemitism: is it "happening again"? / Rabbi Brant Rosen -- Part III: Fighting false charges of antisemitism -- Two degrees of separation: Israel, its Palestinian victims, and the fraudulent use of antisemitism / Omar Barghouti -- A double-edged sword: Palestine activism and antisemitism on college campuses / Kelsey Waxman -- This campus will divest! The specer of antisemitism and the stifling of dissent on college campuses / Ben Lorber -- Antisemitism on the American college campus in the age of corporate education, identity politics, and power-blindness / Orian Zakai -- Chilling and censoring of Palestine advocacy in the United States / Dima Khalidi -- Conclusion -- Let the semites end the world! On decolonial resistance, solidarity, and pluriversal struggle / Alexander Abbasi -- Building toward the next world / Rabbi Alissa Wise -- Appendix I: JVP statements on antisemitism -- Appendix II: Discussion guide and additional readings