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Seminal Texts
Jacques Givet – The Antizionist Complex (1977). The foundational identification of antizionism as an ideological assault on Jewish existence.
Natan Sharansky – Defending Identity (2008) & writings on the “3D Test of Antisemitism.” Sharansky’s framework for distinguishing legitimate criticism of Israel from antizionism has become a touchstone in public and academic debates.
Jean Améry – At the Mind’s Limits (1977). A Holocaust survivor’s searing reckoning with postwar anti-Jewish hate, including on the political left.
Contemporary Analyses
David Hirsh – Contemporary Left Antisemitism (2018). How antizionism became normalized in progressive politics.
David Seymour – Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust (2017). Examines how “universalist” legal discourse legitimizes antisemitism.
Matthias Küntzel – Jihad and Jew-Hatred (2007). Traces ideological ties between Nazism, Islamism, and antizionist rhetoric.
Eunice G. Pollack (ed.) – From Antisemitism to Antizionism (2022). Academic essays on how antisemitic tropes re-emerge in antizionist language.
Jeffrey Herf – Israel’s Moment (2022). On global power struggles around Israel’s founding and the sabotage of Jewish sovereignty.
Cary Nelson – Israel Denial (2019). A critical mapping of academic boycotts and antizionism in higher education.
Hirsh & Miller – Durban Antisemitism: The End of the Liberal Consensus (2022). Traces how the 2001 Durban conference institutionalized antizionism on the global stage.
Fine & Spencer – Antisemitism and the Left (2017). On the return of the “Jewish Question” in progressive politics.
Lyn Julius – Uprooted (2017). Documents the erasure of Mizrahi Jews and the collapse of Jewish life in Arab lands.
Ben-Atar & Pessin (eds.) – Antizionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS (2018). First-hand accounts of antizionist campaigns in academia.
Rusi Jaspal – Antisemitism and Antizionism (2014). Sociological perspectives on contemporary hostility to Jews and Israel.
Alvin Rosenfeld (ed.) – Antizionism and Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Delegitimization (2019). A collection unpacking how delegitimization campaigns operate.