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Respond to an antizionist incident in writing.
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learning resources
Seminal Texts
Jacques Givet – The Antizionist Complex (1979). The foundational identification of antizionism as an ideological assault on Jewish existence. Free pdf here.
Jean Améry – At the Mind’s Limits (1977). A Holocaust survivor’s searing reckoning with postwar anti-Jewish hate, including on the political left.
Maaz resources
Contemporary Analyses
Scholars For Truth About Genocide (2025) — Over 500 scholars and experts of genocide, antisemitism, and antizionism reject the genocide libel.
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 classical 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.
Community letters
Essays & Articles
Hamas’ October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial Avraham Russell Shale
What Antizionism Really Is — Adam Louis-Klein The Free Press
The Cult of Antizionism — Izabella Tabarovsky Tablet Magazine
Plots, libels, accusations: Fingers pointed at Jews go back centuries — Naya Lekht
Antizionism: Projection and Replacement Theology—Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
Soviet Antizionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism — Izabella Tabarovsky, Fathom
The Genocide Libel: How the World Has Charged Israel with Genocide — Norman Goda
quizzes
Test your knowledge about antizionism here.