Contemporary Antisemitism Perspectives from the LCSCA Conference

Record of an Exceptional Time: An Introduction

Anna Zawadzka and David Hirsh

ANTISEMITISM: LONG DURATION

The blood libel(s)

1. The Genocide Libel Against Israel and Its Functions

Chad Alan Goldberg

2. From Denial to Hatred: How Holocaust Denial Fuels Contemporary Antisemitism

Stephanie Courouble-Share

3. On Comparison

Bill Niven

4. Holy Cow! Kosher slaughter in the Canadian courts, 1913-2026

James Mendelsohn

5. Antisemitism and the use of Blood Libel in Maternity Care and Birth Work

Laura Godfrey-Isaacs

6. Overwriting History: Antisemitic incidents at Holocaust memorials after 7/10

Laura Steinbruck

Post-colonial mythology

7. The Battle for Postcolonialism. Maxime Rodinson, Albert Memmi, and the Question of Israel

Carl Julius Reim

8.Aryan-myth and Antisemitism in Iranian studies during Nazism. A different Orientalism

Hendrik Hebauf

9. The Legacy of “Zionism as Racism”

Batsheva Neuer

Local patterns

10.An introduction to the history of antisemitism and Irish Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1950

Aoibh Crimmins

11. A brief critical theory of antisemitism in Latin America

Christoph Joppich

12.The latent antisemitism and the perception of Hitler in contemporary India in pre- and post-October 7 scenarios

Sayan Lodh

13.Conceptualizing antisemitism and Jewish identity in communist Poland: the 1967–68 antizionist campaign as an identification regime

Marcin Starnawski

14. We thought we were very safe“: Impacts on the Jewish and Israeli Communities in Germany

Marina Chernivsky and Friederike Lorenz-Sinai

15. Partisan games, real stakes: Israel- and antisemitism-related polarization in Trump-era U.S. politics

Marc Seul

ANTISEMITISM RESEARCH

Methodological challenges

16. (Non-)Identical: Jewish perspectives as new paradigm in antisemitism-critical education and research

Henning Gutfleisch

17. Institutional Antisemitism: The Application of a Concept from Racism Studies

Sina Arnold and Juliane Karakayali

18. Understanding Antisemitism: Why Perceiver and Target Perspectives Are Both Essential

Yael Silverstein and Caryn Block

19. Victim-oriented perspectives on the police and the legal system in Germany

Till Hendlmeier and Colin Kaggl

20. Between continuity and rupture: The understanding of antisemitism among Jews in Germany before and after October 7^th

Niklas Herrberg and Elisabeth Funk

21. Combating Antisemitism: The EU Digital Services Act as a Tool to Regulate Online Hate?

Carolyn M. Dudek

22. The empath-narcissist dynamic and the psycho-social mechanisms of antisemitism

Megan S. Hollinger

23. The relevance of Pierre Bourdieu's categories for antisemitism analysis

Anna Zawadzka

Critical Theory

24. Postcolonial antisemitism as regression

Benno Herzog

25. Critical Theory and the Entanglement of Antisemitism and Misogyny: Unpacking the Ideology of Incels

Gesche Gerdes

26. Not standing with Israel, but taking its place: Antisemitism, antizionism, and the German Far Right’s identification with Israel as aggressor, drawing on Anna Freud

Nikolai Schreiter

Discourse analysis

27. The Debate on German Guilt since October 7

Elke Rajal

28. Speaking freely about being silenced: The assertion of a taboo against criticism of Israel as a rhetorical strategy

Lukas Uwira and Jonas Hessenauer

29. Detabooisation of Antisemitism: A Case Study on Reverse Norm Diffusion

Elizaveta Zaidman

30. Jews and power: Allegations of illegitimacy in contemporary antisemitism (and beyond?)

Oscar Franck

31. Freedom of Expression, religious hate speech and antisemitism: A Study of Pro-Palestinian Activism through public protests

Sylvie Bacquet

32. An empirical perspective on discourses about antisemitism in contemporary France

Sébastien Mosbah-Natanson

SPACES OF ANTISEMITISM

Antisemitism online

33.The Digital (Re)Ghettoization of Jews

Ari Stillman

34. Social media companies, antisemitism, and Holocaust education

Carlota Matesanz Sanchioli

35. Re-igniting agency: Exploiting GenAI to counter contemporary antisemitism

Christine Y. Maxwell

36. Antisemitism in digital gaming communities

Constantin Winkler

37. How Antisemitic Narratives Are Spread Using Online Video on Social Media

Philip Nottingham

38. Antisemitism Trend Alert: Denial of October 7 Massacre on Social Media Platforms

Vered Andre’ev, Lara Portnoy, Hadas Kuznits, CyberWell Research Team

Academia

39. Scholars of the Holocaust and their “Jewish Problem”

Jan Grabowski

40. Toward an Evidence-Based Response to Campus Antisemitism

Leonard Saxe

41. Waves of Hatred: A Comparative Analysis of Antisemitism After the Yom Kippur War (1974) and on U.S. Campuses in 2024

Raheli Baratz

42. How social media have influenced Jewish students’ campus experiences since October 7^th

Vikki Katz

43. Opening space for dialogue at Goldsmiths, University of London

Emma Davies and Tali Lernau

Art

44. Squeegee with toothpaste? Re-burying the 1944 Sonderkommando photos in Gerhard Richter’s 2014 Birkenau paintings

Caroline Rupprecht

45. Hate-Made Self-Portraits: Reimagining Jewish Golems in Digital Spaces

Maya Amrami

46. Satirical Subversions in Ils sont partout: Antisemitism in Historical and Contemporary Performing Arts

Sara Offenberg

47. Antisemitism that is not meant to be: Analysing the antisemitism scandal at the German art exhibition documenta fifteen after October 7, 2023

Tim Stosberg

Education

48. Using literature as a springboard for conversation about antisemitism and Jewish identity

Deborah Greenblatt, Melanie D. Koss, Noah Simon Jampol, and Liza Weimer

49. The Curricular Homelessness of the Topics Middle East Conflict and Israel-related Antisemitism in Germany

Kai E. Schubert and Christoph Wolf

50. Reading Anne Frank as a Jewish Girl: Holocaust Pedagogy and Contemporary Antisemitism

Naomi Yavneh Klos

51. Spaces of opportunity for antisemitic speech in learning environments of social work

Tanja Ehmann

52. Outlines of social work profession critical of antisemitism

Georg Gläser

Religion

53. Managing an Absence: Constructions of the Judaism-Christianity Relationship in Religion and Ethics Textbooks

Christine Chiriac

54. The Islamist War of Religion from the 1930s to the Attack of October 7, 2023

Jeffrey Herf

55. Should Christians Host Seder Meals? The Early Church’s Understanding of Judaism and Its Modern Relevance

Michael Dormandy

56. Diaspora Under Influence: Islamist Networks, Digital Propaganda, and Authoritarian Reception in Europe

Hüseyin Çiçek

The Left

57. Antisemitism, Sexual Assault and Disavowal

Chloe Yale Pinto

58. Judith Butler’s conception of Jewishness through the prism of post-Soviet Jewish experience

Marija Petrovic

59. From denial to boycott: Antisemitism in the Brazilian left after October 7

Matheus Alexandre

Biography

Anna Zawadzka is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Slavic Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. She is the author of More than a Stereotype: “Jewish Bolshevism” as a Pattern of Polish Culture (2023).

David Hirsh is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Academic Director of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. His previous books include Contemporary Left Antisemitism (Routledge, 2018) and The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2024).