About:

Antisemitism has been on the rise again. Antisemitic worldviews have been developed over thousands of years. They have been reformulated again and again. Today, antisemitism can be related to religious, nationalistic, or political views. It can even be formulated in the language of human rights. This makes it often difficult to address, because some forms of antisemitism are very close to home.

In my presentation. I will go over recent trends and statistics of antisemitic incidents and discuss some of the main ideological sources.

Speaker:

GÜNTHER JIKELI

Günther Jikeli came to the U.S. in 2015 and now holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is an associate professor at Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies. He has established a lab of graduate and undergraduate students on “social media & hate,” focusing on antisemitism on Twitter and some other social media platforms. https://isca.indiana.edu/about/faculty/jikeli-gunther.html