To combat the rise in antisemitism, we need to accurately name what it is and continually confront it as a country.
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By its final block, the commission had heard from more than 300 witnesses and received more than 20,000 submissions. The evidence paints a concerning picture.
New research looking at more than 1,300 posts directed toward witnesses reveals vitriolic abuse. Royal commissions need updating for the digital age.
Research on social bonding suggests that common traditions can foster connection not only within communities but also across cultural and religious boundaries.
A new book reveals how Jews, Judaism, Israel and Palestine helped shape Welsh identity across centuries.
Geopolitical violence abroad translates into homegrown threats in the US and Canada. Recent antisemitic attacks show how the Jewish community is a target of those threats.
Denmark’s ‘parallel societies’: how the Nordic welfare state came to label its housing estates ‘ghettos’.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.
The government is under significant pressure to launch a royal commission into antisemitism. Here’s how these sorts of inquiries work and what they can and can’t do.
The plan spans everything from public broadcasting to AI in a bid to curb growing violence. But where does fair criticism end and antisemitism begin?
The plan is broad, also covering security, law enforcement, and online regulation among other areas. But it is unclear how much of it the government will take up.
Alarming incidents of antisemitism have sparked a political debate in Australia. But tackling the problem requires looking at structural forms of antisemitism, too.
Police have upgraded the investigation of the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue to a counterterrorism operation. Here’s how decisions like these are made and why they can take days.
A man has been charged with a number of property offences after an incident in Sydney last week. We need to look for ways to curb antisemitism in the long term.
As colleges and universities grapple with antisemitism on campus, research reveals that views on Jews and Israel are more complex than current debates would make them seem.
Jewish life in Canada and Argentina reflects the diversity of Jewish communities globally, and the political, social and economic evolution of each country throughout the 20th century.
False ideas about the extinction of the white race, spread around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gave rise to xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories.
In recent years, the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism has taken on renewed importance and competing definitions of antisemitism have emerged. What is antisemitism?
For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities.
The Holocaust is not just a memory in Israel. It’s part of how Israelis understand themselves and their country − and it’s playing a part in how the country responds to the Hamas massacres of Oct. 7.
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Tackling Hate Lab, Deakin University
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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PhD in History, Durham University
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St. Louis