Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Malaysia

Mary J. Ainslie is Assistant Professor at the School of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus, China. Her research specializes in Southeast Asian culture and society and the intercultural links throughout this region. She is widely published and has won funding from the Korea Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies and the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a visiting scholar at Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 2015 and at the University of East Finland in 2018.

• Introduction – Judaism and anti-Semitism in Southeast Asia and Malaysia.- Anti-Semitism as morally correct – characterizing the dominant construction of Israel, Palestine and Jews in Malaysia.- Understanding the Function of anti-Semitism and the Israel/Palestine situation in Malaysia.- Questioning anti-Semitism in Malaysia.- Curiosity, interest and Philosemitism.- Conclusion.