Publications

Insights

“Genocide – Abuse and Misuse”: a short opinion article by our Senior Volunteer Associate, Adv. Dr. Ian Jaffe.

“Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Ideology, Nostalgia, the Repoliticization of the Victim, and the Inverted David and Goliath Paradigm”: a short analytical essay by our Research Fellow, Dr. Alon Helled.

Interviews

Interview with the Center’s New Research Fellow – Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek

In this interview, Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek, a scholar of religion, law, and political theory and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, discusses the limits of speaking about “Islam in Europe” as a single phenomenon, contemporary patterns of antisemitism in Turkish and Kurdish contexts, the political and religious dimensions of anti-Jewish rhetoric, and the role of scholars in times of polarization and institutional erosion.

Interview with the Center’s New Research Fellow – Prof. Rona Kaufmann

In this interview Prof. Kaufmann, discusses the moment she realized she needed to intervene in the intellectual arena, the ways anti-Zionist discourse has been absorbed into academia, the challenges facing the Jewish world after October 7, and what she hopes to offer her students in her courses. Prof. Kaufmann is a scholar at Duquesne University in the United States, who’s work explores the intersections of law, feminism, Zionism, and Jewish identity, and is now one of the leading voices in understanding how contemporary antisemitism manifests in legal discourse, academia, and feminist theory.

Interview with the Center’s New Research Fellow – Dr. Alon Helled

In this interview, Dr. Helled, an Israeli scholar at the University of Turin who specializes in the history of international relations, national identity, and political and social processes in Europe and Israel, speaks about his experiences as an Israeli living in Europe during wartime, his research interests, manifestations of anti-Israelism and antisemitism in Italy, and what Israel can learn from Europe’s handling of hatred and incitement.

Academic articles

“The Origins of the Israeli Attitudes towards the Relation Between Antisemitism and Anti Zionism”

Yossi Kugler, Journal of Jewish Identities 19, Number 1 (2026), pp. 41–58.

“‘Never Again’: Zionism and the Jewess”

Rona Kaufman, FIU Law Review 19, Issue 3 (2025), pp. 737–770.

“‘Their Intention and Slogan to Throw Us into the Sea Is Not a Figure of Speech’: Yehoshafat Harkabi and Arab Hostility”

Yossi Kugler, Ha-Mizrah He-Hadash 64 (2025), pp. 139–163. (in Hebrew)

Israel, Bun-Gurion and the Struggle Against Antisemitism

Yossi Kugler, Israel Affairs 31:5, 2025, pp. 697–715.

“Between Rhetoric and History: Ben-Gurion and the Comparison of Arabs to Nazis”

Yossi Kugler, Muza 7, winter 2024, pp. 31-45. (in Hebrew)

“The Attitudes of the Israeli Society towards Antisemitism, 1948-1987” (Abstract of the PhD dissertation)

Yossi Kugler, Kesher 61, Winter 2023-2024, pp. 281-283. (in Hebrew)

“’Antisemitism from Its Origins to the Present’: An Online Video Course by Yad Vashem“

Yossi Kugler and Dafna Dolinko, in Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences (ed. By Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 393-401.

Book reviews

Review of Shalom Lappin, The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World. Yossi Kugler, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024), Jewish Culture and History 25 (4), 2024, pp. 655-658.

Review of Antisemitism and the Politics of History, eds. Scott Ury and Guy Miron, Brandeis University Press, 2024. Yossi Kugler, Jewish Culture and History, 2025.