Responses to 7 October: Universities

by Rosa Freedman (Editor), David Hirsh (editor)

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus.

Contributions go back to Sartre and to debates of Marx’s time; another looks at the New Left forged in the civil rights movement, and shows how antisemitic responses to the 2023 violence were anticipated by some of the responses to the 1967 Arab League aggression. The feminist movement and ‘progressives’ more generally come under scrutiny, and there is analysis of antisemitism on campus after 7 October, showing how it is tolerated and protected there; including in archaeological attempts to deny that there is an ancient Jewish history in Israel.

This work will appeal to scholars, students and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies and the politics of Israel.

116 pages, Hardcover

Published May 29, 2024

About the author

Professor Rosa Freedman researches on the United Nations, and has a number of interests within that area: human rights bodies, creation and implementation of international human rights law, human rights of vulnerable groups (with specific focus on women's rights, SOGI rights, and freedom of religion/belief), accountability for human rights abuses committed by UN actors, preventing sexual exploitation and abuse in conflict and crisis zones, and the intersection between international law and international relations.

Reviews

[Mannie Liscum]

Important timely collection of thoughtful essays. I would like to highlight two of the pieces in particular as being valuable for my work on teaching about antisemitism and antizionism, especially within the leftist academy: 1) Michael Bolton’s ‘Disenchanting Palestine,’ and 2) David Seymour’s ‘October Reflections.’