Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Israel and the Diaspora
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 183-204
Keywords:
Jewish students
;
Boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement
;
Antisemitism History 21st century
;
Propaganda, Anti-Israeli
;
Antisemitism in higher education
Abstract:
This research began with the objective of gaining a better understanding of Canadian students’ campus-safety experiences. As the research progressed, for some students, safety became associated with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the connection to the new antisemitism (Selig, 2010; Wistrich, 2010, 2013). This was especially true for students who supported Israel and felt their campus safety was being jeopardized (Landes, 2020; Marcus, 2015; Norwood, 2011; Pessin & Ben-Atar, 2018; Pollock, 2011; Stern, 2020). In some ways, this research on campus safety gradually became a continuation of past work I completed on French Jews who overwhelmingly reported that one of their primary reasons for leaving France and resettling in Montréal was the threat associated with the new antisemitism (Kenedy, 2010, 2012 2017; Kenedy & Cohen-Reis, 2010). It was not until researching Jews leaving France that I began to understand what Wistrich (2010, 2013) referred to as the new antisemtism. When Jewish students and others supportive of Israel began discussing campus safety, they often talked about the presence of the BDS movement and how that impacted the campus climate related to the new antisemitism. Overall, it was the anti-Israel and antisemitic climate that students associated with feeling unsafe in the classroom or on campus that prompted me to consider the new antisemitism and relation to global antisemitism.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-80872-3_11
URL:
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