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.
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The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace.
1. Preface:
a. Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

2. Introduction:
a. Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley
b. Rebecca Vilkomerson: Anti-Semitism for the sake of Israel in the era of Trump

3. Part I: Theories of anti-Semitism
a. Shaul Magid, Professor of Religious Studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair of Jewish Studies in Modern Judaism at Indiana University.
b. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jointly appointed to MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and the
Department of Physics.
c. Tony Lerman, Founder and former Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, which devises policy solutions to social, political and cultural problems facing Jews and other minorities in Europe.
d. Tallie Ben Daniel, Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council Coordinator
e. Aurora Levins Morales, writer, artist, historian, teacher, and revolutionary

4. Part II: Palestine Advocacy and the United States
a. Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and Co-Founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
b. Radhika Sainath, Staff attorney at Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
c. Rev. Graylan Halger, Senior Minister at the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington DC and veteran civil rights activist
d. Rev. Dr. Walter T. Davis Professor Emeritus of the Sociology of Religion at San Francisco Theological Seminary
e. Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian attorney and human rights activist.

5. Part III: Deploying Anti-Semitism as a Weapon on Campus
a. Kelsey Waxman, Senior at UC Berkeley, and Chair of JVP-UC Berkeley
b. Anonymous Palestinian American Student, Alumni of the University of California, Los Angeles
c. Ben Lorber, Student Network Coordinator, Jewish Voice for Peaced. Orian Zakai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew - Middlebury College
e. Rachel Ida Buff, Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

6. Conclusion: Standing for Justice
a. Alex Abbasi, Palestinian-American activist and Doctoral Student at the University of Johannesburg
b. Rabbi Alissa Wise, Co-Director of Organizing, Jewish Voice for Peace
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  • Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a rapidly-growing national organization, with over 2,000 members and 64 chapters
  • A built-in audience via JVP's national membership, their ally organizations in the Palestine solidarity movement, and their membership
  • Significant social media presence, with large and very engaged audiences: 54,400 Twitter followers and 356,000 Facebook fans for JVP National page
  • A useful and exciting tool for student organizing, via JVPs Student Network
  • A teaching resource for the 600+ academics on our JVP Academic Advisory Council
  • A resource for our fifty Rabbinical Council Members
  • Considerable interest from university libraries through JVP's Academic Advisory Council which consists of over 750 members
  • Chapters across the country will plan author events, run book clubs, and promote this book in their local communities
  • JVP's bi-annual National Member Meeting (NMM) has an expected attendance of well over 1,000 in late Spring 2017
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    ISBN
    9781608467617
    Publisert
    2017-04-18
    Utgiver
    Haymarket Books
    Høyde
    228 mm
    Bredde
    154 mm
    Aldersnivå
    01, G, 01
    Språk
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Heftet
    Antall sider
    300

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    Biografisk notat

    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 60 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.

    Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, Frames of War, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.