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Prof. Jack Wertheimer

Dr. Jack Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Wertheimer is the author or editor of more than a dozen volumes, including A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America (Basic Books), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994 for the best study on contemporary Jewish life. Most recently, Dr. Wertheimer has written a number of studies about the rapidly evolving field of Jewish education: His latest book is an edited volume titled, The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape. From 1997 to 2007, Dr. Wertheimer served as provost, the chief academic officer of JTS. He also served as the founding director of the Joseph and Miriam Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism from 1987 to 2008.

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Peter Wertheim

Peter Wertheim AM is the Executive Director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the elected national representative body of the Australian Jewish community. He has degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Laws degree in Public International Law from the University of New South Wales. In 2003 he was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to the Jewish and wider communities and for work in a variety of projects promoting communal harmony and understanding. He has been a Statutory Board Member of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board, and a member of the Australian Multicultural Council.

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Theodore Friedgut

Theodore H. Friedgut, is a professor emiritus of Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He recieved his PhD from Columbia University in 1972.

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Israel Singer

Israel Singer studied political science and international law at the City University of New York, where he later became a professor in political science. In 1985 he became secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress and its representative in the Claims Conference. He was chairman of the executive committee of the WJC and president of the Claims Conference .

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Laurence E. Rothenberg

Laurence E. Rothenberg is a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The former editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal, he is the author of numerous articles, studies, and book chapters on international law, globalization, and U.S. military strategy.

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Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad holds a MA degree in Political Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is currently the Deputy Editor of the new critical-edition English langauge anthology of Ze'ev Jabotisnky's collected writings.

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Matthew B. Schwartz

Matthew B. Schwartz teaches history at Wayne State and Lawrence Tech Universities.

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Matthew Levitt

Matthew Levitt is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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Raphael Israeli

Raphael Israeli is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A graduate of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in History and Arabic Literature, he received his PhD in Chinese and Islamic History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Israeli has written 30 books and some 100 scholarly articles in the fields of Islamic radicalism, Islamic terrorism, the Modern Middle East, Islam in China and Asia and the Opening of China by the French. His books include The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue and Living with Islam: The Sources of Fundamentalist Islam. His most recent book (2012) is The Oslo Process: The Euphoria of Failure

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Israel Shrenzel

Israel Shrenzel is a former chief analyst in the Arabic section of the research division of the Israel Security Agency. He currently teaches at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. His research covers modern Islamic thought (especially Islamic modernism and the Muslim Brotherhood), ancient Islam, and Jewish-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages. Shrenzel also researched the concept of global jihad and its manifestations in recent decades.

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Sherry Israel

Sherry Israel is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Associate Professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University.

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Prof. Gunther Jikeli

Günther Jikeli holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at Indiana University’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism at the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is an associate professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University. His latest book (with Olaf Glockner) “Das neue Unbehagen. Anti-Semitismus in Deutschland heute” [The New Unease. Anti-Semitism in Germany Today] was published in summer 2019. In 2015, he published “European Muslim Anti-Semitism.” with IU Press. His research focuses on online and offline forms of contemporary anti-Semitism. Dr. Jikeli offers supervision and advice for students who wish to study anti-Semitism or who are writing a thesis related to anti-Semitism/ critical anti-Semitism studies.

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Catherine D. Chatterley

Catherine D. Chatterley is the author of Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz (Syracuse, 2011), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Modern Jewish Thought. She teaches modern European and Jewish history at the University of Manitoba and is the founding director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA). She can be reached through the Institute’s website: canisa.org.

Publications

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Palestinian Manipulation of the International Community

Overview Background of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute The lengthy and continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has evolved, over the years, through various phases or cycles of terror on the one hand, and attempts at peace-making on the other. These cycles have ranged from sporadic, individual, and organized acts of violence, terror, and armed conflict […]

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UNRWA: Blurring the Lines between Humanitarianism and Politics

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has become one of the largest UN programs, with over 30,000 personnel operating in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. It remains the only UN agency whose area of operation is not global but regional, and […]

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Jewish Political Studies Review

About Research Areas Subscribe Back Issues Special Issues Article Subjects Volume 29, Numbers 3–4 Freedom Denied: A Firsthand Look at Kurdistan’s Referendum Debacle, One Year On by Zach Huff No Arab Demographic Time Bomb by Amb. Yoram Ettinger Verses and Reality: What the Koran Really Says about Jews by Israel Shrenzel The Arab-Muslim Slave Trade: […]

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JPSR: Articles by Subject

A Sampling of Jewish Political Studies Review Articles Europe and Israel     International Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism  Israeli-Palestinian Conflict      Arab World       Israeli International Relations Israeli National Identity      American Jewish Community      Jewish Political Tradition Europe and Israel Holocaust Remembrance in the Council of Europe: Deplorable Victims and Evil Ideologies without Perpetrators The […]

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JPSR: Back Issues

Volume 24, Numbers 3–4 (Fall 2012) Message from the Editor Building the Positive Peace: The Urgent Need to Bring the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Back to Basics Kobi Michael and Joel Fishman The Zionist Message Hidden within Antique Pictures of the Holy Land Lenny Ben-David Intelligence Failure or Paralysis? Amnon Lord Could French Reporting on Israel Reflect […]

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“New” Anti-Semitism in Contemporary German Academia

It is one of the bitter ironies of the dialectics of modernity that the very sphere of science and academia, the purpose of which is to enlighten mankind, has provided intellectual cover to modern Jew-hatred. It was in Germany of all places that scientific discovery and academic discourse were subject to the utmost perversion, contributing intellectually and technically to the Holocaust.

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The Gaza War and the New Outburst of Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli manifestations reached post-Second World War highs during Israel’s recent Gaza campaign. A number of new hate thresholds were crossed. There were much-increased public expressions of equating Israel with Nazi Germany. Calls for the murder of Jews abounded for the first time in demonstrations in Germany, as well as in the United States. A number of actions by various independent Muslim bodies in several Western countries manifested their desire to conquer the public

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What the West Should Learn From the Assault on Israel and the Jews

European states over the past decades did not understand that the threats Israel was encountering in those years were essentially precursors of the menaces they would face as well. Had leading European politicians realized that a broader assault by radical Islam was underway – ultimately directed at their countries rather than at Israel alone – they likely would not have made the major errors they committed – particularly in the area of immigration – that have undermined European security today.

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European Politics: Double Standards Toward Israel

The relationship between Europe and Israel is complex, tense, and historically loaded. A growing gap has developed between their political outlooks. European political actions can continue to cause Israel so many problems and harms that these in the longer run may increasingly dominate all other aspects of the relationship.

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Abusing the Legacy of the Holocaust: The Role of NGOs in Exploiting Human Rights to Demonize Israel

In the wake of the Holocaust, as human rights norms have come to the fore, NGOs have become major actors in international politics in general and in the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. These organizations and their leaders form an extremely powerful “NGO community” that has propelled the anti-Israeli agenda in international frameworks such as the UN Human Rights Commission and the 2001 UN Conference against Racism in Durban. Through their reports, press releases, and influence among academics and diplomats, these NGOs propagated false charges of “massacre” during the Israeli army’s antiterror operation in Jenin (Defensive Shield) and misrepresent Israel’s separation barrier as an “apartheid wall.”