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Confronting Hate: Antisemitism Across Politics, Geography, and Demography

In this webinar, panelists discussed how antisemitism manifests differently on the political left and right, as well as when antisemitism and racism intersect and diverge.

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Antisemitism

Like other forms of race-based hatred, antisemitism is, in part, an ideology that can be weaponized to a variety of ends. As such, antisemitism persists across the political spectrum, across national borders, across age, across education levels, and other demographic markers.

This webinar considered key questions about how antisemitism appears in different forms. Why is antisemitism often left out of social justice movements that confront racism and white supremacy? Why are Jews more often viewed as allies rather than as a fellow marginalized group also threatened by white supremacy? Why are Jews perceived as puppet masters of the “Great Replacement” theory and why are so many mass shootings carried out by those who ascribe to such conspiracy theories, even when not targeting Jews? In this webinar, panelists discussed how antisemitism manifests differently on the political left and right, as well as when antisemitism and racism intersect and diverge.

We are grateful to The Hammer Family for supporting the development of our on-demand learning and teaching resources.

Jimmie Briggs

Principal, Skoll Foundation

When Jimmie joined the Skoll Foundation in 2020, he had more than two decades of experience as a journalist, author and activist. He was a co-founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. This led to his selection as the winner of the 2010 GQ Magazine "Better Men Better World" search, and as one of the Women's eNews '21 Leaders for the 21st Century'. Jimmie has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research and was a George A Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana.

Sara Yacobi-Harris

Co-Founder, No Silence on Race

Sara Yacobi-Harris is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and educator. She is the co-founder of No Silence on Race, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating Jewish spaces for multi-ethnic Jews across Canada through art, culture and community engagement. Sara has worked with the Ontario Jewish Archives, Toronto Jewish Film Foundation, Hillel Ontario, and The House. She also presented at the Canadian National Summit on Antisemitism.

Shane Burley

Writer and Filmmaker, Political Research Associates

Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured at places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Independent, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, Tikkun, The Baffler, Bandcamp Daily, Truthout, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He is also the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Social Justice on “Antisemitism in the 21st Century.” He is currently working on two books, one on radical approaches to antisemitism and another on the history of antifascism and popular struggle.

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