Responses to 7 October

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.

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Rosa Freedman is Professor of Law at the University of Reading and Research Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, UK.

David Hirsh is the Academic Director and CEO of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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