Seth Anziska, University College London
April 21, 12 pm ET/ 5 pm BST
An ongoing debate over the adoption of group specific definitions of racism and prejudice in UK universities raises vital questions for scholars and students of Jewish-Muslim Relations and related fields. How have the efforts to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Islamophobia shaped university responses to discrimination? To what extent can definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia help remedy patterns of prejudicial behavior? Should these efforts be undertaken jointly, if at all?Drawing on recent discussions at UCL, and considering wider international debates and alternative definitions, this talk will explore the challenges and opportunities for cross-communal solidarity and mutual understanding of the lived experience of discrimination.
Seth Anziska is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London. His research and teaching focuses on Israeli and Palestinian society and culture, modern Middle Eastern history, and contemporary Arab and Jewish politics. He is the author of Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo (Princeton University Press, 2018), which was awarded the British Association for Jewish Studies Book Prize in 2019. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and he is currently working on an international history of the 1982 Lebanon War, supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust.
