ERASIVE ANTI-SEMITISM – A New Threat Arising Within Contemporary Progressive Discourse – Policy Paper – Version A | Reut English

1. Jewish communities worldwide are increasingly attuned in recent years to challenges posed by anti-Semitism that emanates from progressive movements.[1] In the past decade, the assault in Israel’s legitimacy from the left has attracted the lion’s share of attention, and mobilized in response a robust coordinated global effort, led by Jewish communities and the State of Israel, to combat delegitimization on every front, from international fora to university campuses.
2. The purpose of this paper is to offer a more accurate description of an increasingly prevalent and different strain of progressive anti-Semitism that has not been robustly named or defined, and which the abovementioned global coordinated effort does not directly address….