“American Antizionism” – Boundless Insights with Rachel Fish

Sociologist and Jewish studies scholar Dr. Shaul Kelner joins Dr. Rachel Fish to examine the rise of antizionism as a distinctly American political and social movement. Kelner argues that contemporary antizionism is less an intellectual critique of Zionism than a political mass movement defined by praxis: the othering and exclusion of Jews through social and…

Posted by kelnersj on December 29, 2025 in Lectures and Podcasts, antisemitism, antizionism

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Turning Critical Theory on Its Head: Academia’s Palestine exception

Published in SAPIR: A quarterly journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future Autumn 2024 “Rehearse the litany of abuses and double standards against Jewish and Israeli students and faculty in campuses this past year…. Those parts of the academy that have most embraced critical theory have failed to critique the ways in which their…

Posted by kelnersj on November 18, 2024 in Magazines and Opinion, antisemitism, antizionism

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Elie Wiesel Goes to Moscow: On the (In)visibility of Systemic Antisemitism

Vanderbilt Law School, Dean’s Lecture Series on Race and Discrimination April 3, 2023 Two decades after he was liberated from Auschwitz, and two decades before he won the Nobel Peace Price, Elie Wiesel visited the USSR to report back on the plight of Soviet Jews. His 1966 travelogue, The Jews of Silence, became the galvanizing…

Posted by kelnersj on April 3, 2023 in Lectures and Podcasts, antisemitism, featured, Soviet Jewry Movement

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