Full Description
One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus.
Contributions go back to Sartre and to debates of Marx's time; another looks at the New Left forged in the civil rights movement, and shows how antisemitic responses to the 2023 violence were anticipated by some of the responses to the 1967 Arab League aggression. The feminist movement and 'progressives' more generally come under scrutiny, and there is analysis of antisemitism on campus after 7 October, showing how it is tolerated and protected there; including in archaeological attempts to deny that there is an ancient Jewish history in Israel.
This work will appeal to scholars, students and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies and the politics of Israel.
Contents
Introduction Editor's Note 1. 'A Tool to Advance Imperial Interests': Leftist Self-Scrutiny and Israeli Wrongdoing 2. Thinking with and against Sartre about Reactions to the October 7th Pogrom 3. The rise and rise of the 'Israel Question' 4. Jewish "Whiteness" and its Effects in the Aftermath of October 7 5. A History of Feminist Antisemitism 6. The Return of the Progressive Atrocity 7. Rain of Ashes Over Elite American Universities 8. The Professors and the Pogrom: How the theory of 'Zionist Settler Colonialism' reframed the 7 October massacre as 'Liberation' 9. October 7 and the Antisemitic War of Words 10. Ancient Historians Embrace Debunked Conspiracy Theories Denying that Jews are Indigenous to Israel 11. From Eighteenth-Century Germany to Contemporary Academia: Combating the Conspiracy Theory of Antisemitism in Scholarship
