Poisoning the Wells

Corinne E. Blackmer is Professor of English and Director of Judaic Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She has authored numerous works, including Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, Israel/Palestine Campus Activism. She is currently working on a memoir of her grandmother, My Grandmother as an Abortionist before Roe.   Andrew Pessin is Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor at the Algemeiner. He is author or editor of (among others) Anti-Zionism on Campus and The Jewish God Question as well as of three novels, his most recent being Nevergreen, a satirical account of campus cancel culture and its deleterious impact on the Jews. More information about him and his work may be found at www.andrewpessin.com.

Foreword

Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director of ISGAP

Introduction: The End of Jewish Innocence: Antisemitism in Contemporary America
Corinne E. Blackmer and Andrew Pessin

1. Antisemitism in Jewish American Academia
Edward Alexander

2. Pinkwashing Antisemitism: The Origins of Queer Anti-Israel Discourse
R. Amy Elman

3. Left Antisemitism: The Rhetoric and Activism of Jewish Voice for Peace
Miriam F. Elman

4. Holocaust Denial on the Web: Confronting the Future of Antisemitism
Joel Finkelstein, Corinne E. Blackmer, and Charles Rubin

5. Intersectionality and the Jews: Theory and Praxis
Elliot Kaufman

6. The Rise of Black Antisemitism: An All Too Familiar Tension Returns
James Kirchick

7. Why So Many Social Scientists Misunderstand Contemporary Antisemitism
Neil J. Kressel

8. “Falling Down a Rabbit Hole:” Antisemitism Becomes the New Normal at Oberlin College
Melissa Landa

9. Micro-Boycotts: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Personal Boycott Movement
Cary Nelson

10. “Happy Dhimmis, Happy Darkeys”: Myths Past and Present
Eunice G. Pollack and Steven H. Norwood


11. Crusaders for Armageddon: Christian Zionism and Antisemitism in the United States
Molly Benjamin Patterson

12. Epistemic Antisemitism, or “Good People Gone Wild:” How Decent People Can Be Antisemites and Not Even Know It
Andrew Pessin

13. The Perpetual Scapegoat: Antisemitism in the Ideology and Activities of Hate Groups in the United States before and after Trump’s Election 


Ashley V. Reichelmann, Stanislav Vysotsky, and Jack Levin 

14. Antisemitism, Soft Jihad, and Extremism in US and Canadian Universities: The Contextualization of National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)


Charles Asher Small and David Patterson

15. Israel as the Repugnant Other: Anti-Zionism in Liberal Protestant Denominations
Dexter Van Zile

16. The University of California Principles against Intolerance: Efforts to Integrate Them into Campus Policy and Practice


Kenneth Waltzer


Contributors

Index