{"title":"Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism","authors":"Dave Rich","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124829791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Holocaust and North Africa","authors":"P. Spencer","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122197957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?—Part II: Social Media, Antizionism, and the End of Academic Freedom","authors":"Cary Nelson","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The rapid rise in the use of social media and in the dissemination of social media posts during the new millennium has blurred the line between professional publications and communications with the general public. The destructive effects of all forms of online hate speech, including antisemitism, have meanwhile become increasingly apparent. Yet the American Association of University Professors reacted in 2015 by declaring that all faculty statements on social media, including those within a faculty member’s areas of teaching and research, are protected from university evaluation by academic freedom. This reverses a long-standing principle that all statements in a faculty member’s areas of professional responsibility are part of his or her professional profile and subject to professional consequences and potential sanctions. Instead, racist or antisemitic social media posts are now to be deemed immune from consequences for job applicants and candidates for tenure. This development has the potential to undermine public confidence in academic freedom and in higher education’s overall ability to exercise professional judgment. A 2021 proposal went still further, arguing that a faculty member should be able to declare a specific body of work officially off limits, protected from any formal review.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123022224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaign against the Jewish State","authors":"J. Cooper","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121598521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Generalised Antisemitism (GeAs) Scale: A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Antisemitism as Expressed in Relation Both to Jews and to Israel","authors":"D. Allington, D. Hirsh, L. Katz","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.99","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explains the development and face validity of the Generalised Antisemitism (GeAs) scale, which provides an up-to-date measure of antisemitism consistent with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism (generally known as the IHRA Definition). The GeAs scale is comprised of two six-item subscales, each containing a balance of reverse-coded items: the Judeophobic Antisemitism (JpAs) subscale, which tests for endorsement of “classic” prejudicial attitudes towards Jews, and the Antizionist Antisemitism (AzAs) subscale, which tests for endorsement of related attitudes expressed in relation to Israel and its supporters. Both subscales reflect the current state of historical and social scholarship on antisemitism and have already been employed in large-scale survey research with funding from Campaign Against Antisemitism. Findings of a validation study presented elsewhere are summarized, and the scale’s use in future scholarly and stakeholder research is recommended.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"9 21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124536697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser. London: Palgrave, 2021. 354 pages. $29.99.","authors":"K. Marcus","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130850080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memory of Pete Newbon","authors":"D. Hirsh","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123743495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Decoding Antisemitism Project—Reflections, Methods, and Goals","authors":"M. Becker, Matthew Bolton","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article introduces the pilot project “Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online.” The aim of the project is to analyse the frequency, content and linguistic structure of online antisemitism, with the eventual aim of developing AI machine learning that is capable of recognizing explicit and implicit forms of antisemitic hate speech. The initial focus is on comments found on the websites and social media platforms of major media outlets in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. The article outlines the project’s multi-step methodological design, which seeks to capture the complexity, diversity and continual development of antisemitism online. The first step is qualitative content analysis. Rather than relying on surveys, here a pre-existing “real-world” data set-namely, threads of online comments responding to media stories judged to be potential triggers for antisemitic speech-is collected and analysed for antisemitic content and linguistic structure by expert coders. The second step is supervised machine learning. Here, models are trained to mimic the decisions of human coders and learn how antisemitic stereotypes are currently reproduced in different web milieus-including implicit forms. The third step is large-scale quantitative analyses in which frequencies and combinations of words and phrases are measured, allowing the exploration of trends from millions of pieces of data.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114826338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mainstreaming of American Antisemitism: The Defeat of an Ideal","authors":"R. Elman","doi":"10.26613/jca/5.1.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/5.1.104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract To recognize the depths of American antisemitism, this article contends we must dispense with the conventional ways we think about it. This requires a rejection of an “American exceptionalism” in which antisemitism happens elsewhere-in other states, political parties, professions, campuses, and communities. Antisemitism so understood occurs only to the unfortunate, in places we don’t frequent, and at the outer edges of the political spectrum. By contrast, I suggest American antisemitism is so pervasive-so utterly mainstream- that it hides in plain sight.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125181087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich","authors":"S. Weil","doi":"10.26613/jca.4.2.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca.4.2.93","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"508 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123564924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}