Co-presented by Harvard Hillel
THE AMERICANIZATION OF ANTIZIONISM
Thursday, October 22, 6 PM EDT
Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium), Harvard University & Livestreamed
Shaul Kelner
Vanderbilt University
Since the early 20th century, governments and political groups in Europe and the Middle East mobilized a discourse of "antizionism" to support actions against local Jews and Jewish communities in their own countries. Today, these politics have crossed the ocean to the US and become associated with targeting of Jewish business and houses of worship, litmus tests for entry into progressive coalitions, exclusion of Israeli and Israel-connected American Jews from social spaces, and, at the extreme, assaults, arson and murder. Have discourses and practices of antizionism forged in other times and places adapted to become a political force endangering Jews here in the United States today?
FREE & OPEN TO ALL
IN PERSON & VIRTUAL
John Bartholomew, The Citizen's Atlas of the World, Map, 1951
SHAUL KELNER
Shaul Kelner is Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at Vanderbilt University and chair of Vanderbilt's Jewish Studies department. Among his many publications, he is the author of the award-winning book, A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews (2024). His PhD is from the CUNY Graduate Center.
