The publication of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism sparked significant controversy, with the JDA statement standing in stark contrast to the commonly accepted IHRA definition.
Tune in to this episode as we dive into the meanings of each definition and explore the benefits and drawbacks of both
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★ MEET OUR GUESTS ★
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Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate and an attorney and award-winning author. For twenty-five years, he was the American Jewish Committee's expert on antisemitism, and he was also the lead drafter of the “Working Definition of Antisemitism." He has argued before the Supreme Court of the United States and testified before Congress. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Forward. He has been a visiting assistant professor of Jewish Studies and a visiting assistant professor of Human Rights at Bard College. As a trial attorney before his AJC tenure, Stern was involved in several high-visibility cases, among them his defense of American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks in one of the last post-Wounded Knee cases (his book about this case, Loud Hawk: The United States vs. The American Indian Movement won the prestigious Gustavus Myers Award). His book about the Oklahoma City bombing -- A Force Upon The Plane: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate -- was nominated for the National Book Award.). He also has written books on antisemitism and on Holocaust denial. His most recent book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (New Jewish Press, 2020).
Website: http://kennethsstern.com/
Most recent book: http://kennethsstern.com/the-conflict-over-the-conflict/
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Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. He taught previously at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, where he was the inaugural holder of the Stanley Lewis Chair in Israel Studies. Penslar takes a comparative and transnational approach to Jewish history, which he studies within the contexts of modern capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism. Penslar’s books include Shylock’s Children: Economics and Modern Identity in Modern Europe (2001), Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006), Jews and the Military: A History (2013), and Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020). He is currently writing a book titled Zionism: An Emotional State and is beginning work on a global history of the 1948 Palestine War. He is President of the American Academy for Jewish Research and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Get in touch with Derek
penslar@fas.harvard.edu
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