Posts Tagged: Robert Wistrich
Tehran on My Mind
Monday marked International Women's Day, and the start of Women's History Month. And Iran is always on my mind when this day comes around. Iran and...
Swedes ‘Shocked and Bewildered’ by Public TV’s Refusal to Air Major Antisemitism Documentary, Director Says
Audiences in Israel are currently flocking to see a Swedish film about the relationship between terrorism and antisemitism that Swedish national TV, which partly financed...
Difficult Questions and Contested Answers on Antisemitism
JNS.org - In his magnum opus A Lethal Obsession, the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of antisemitism at...
Red Flags and Antisemitism in America
The current American election campaign is being touted as the most fraught in recent history. After arduous internal battles, the Republican and Democratic parties have...
Why Robert Wistrich Is Required Reading on Past, Present and Future Antisemitism
JNS.org - A year ago, the world of Jewish academia suffered an irreplaceable loss with the passing of Prof. Robert Wistrich, the head of the Vidal...
Scholars Against Anti-Zionism
JNS.org - Over the years, I’ve spoken at or attended a number of academic conferences on the subject of rising anti-Semitism. Parleys like these are essential...
The Legacy of Robert Wistrich, World’s Leading Scholar of Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - The cemetery in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul neighborhood was bathed in the fading sunlight of a late May afternoon. Silently and steadily, the...
Ominous Clouds Over French Jewry
JNS.org - It's an article that's more than 10 years old now, but I still maintain that anyone who wants to get an insight...
UNESCO Jewish Connection to Israel Exhibit Opens Without ‘Israel’ in Title
JNS.org - The title of a once-delayed United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) exhibit on the Jewish connection to the land of Israel was changed...
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, by Robert Wistrich (REVIEW)
"We Shall Build Ramallah in England's Green and Pleasant Land" From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, by Robert Wistrich (Lincoln, Nebraska and...
Jewish 100: Robert Wistrich – Academia
Photo: Hebrew University. Robert Wistrich Anti-Semitism Scholar This academic is considered a leading scholar of the history of anti-Semitism and in 2012 published his...
Happy Holidays: Why Not Donate For a Daily Dose of Hate?
It's this time of year - and it seems that even the anti-Israel activists from the Electronic Intifada (EI) don't want to miss out on...
Wistrich on “The Left, the Jews and Israel”
Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University professor of European and Jewish History and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism...
Why B’nai Brith Canada Defended Michael Coren’s Anti-Semitism
B'nai Brith Canada is an organization whose stated purpose it is, like our excellent Anti-Defamation League here in the United States, to defend Jews against...
