“I’ve never felt more Jewish than I do nowadays,” says A Public Affair host Esty Dinur near the end of an hour with radical ideas about combating antisemitism and divorcing it from Zionism. We start the show with Professor Omer Bartov who explains his personal journey from writing about the Holocaust to writing on Israel-Palestine and how the actions of Israel has led to an increase in antisemitism.

Then Esty talks with Ben Lorber and Shane Burley about their brand book Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. Ben and Shane will be doing a book talk at A Room of One’s Own on Tuesday, June 25th at 6pm.

Omer Bartov is Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Department of History at Brown University. His many books include Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2021), a  novel titled The Butterfly and the Axe, which was published in January 2023 and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis

Ben Lorber is senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, a social movement think tank, where he studies and publishes on antisemitism and white nationalism (analyst Chip Berlet was s guest on this show). He previously worked as national campus organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, supporting justice driven young Jewish communities across the country, and has written extensively on antisemitism, Israel/Palestine and Jewish identity. 

Shane Burley is the author of several books on the far-right and social movements, and has contributed to NBC News, Jewish Currents, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Daily Beast, Haaretz, In These Times, Yes! Magazine, Tikkun, and The Oregon Historical Quarter.

Image of Bartov by Bildungsstätte Anne Frank, CC BY 3.0, Link

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