Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition

David Feldman is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. Marc Volovici is Alfred Landecker Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

• Part I Introduction.- 1. “The Pure Essence of Things”? Contingency, Controversy, and the Struggle to Define Antisemitism and Islamophobia - David Feldman and Marc Volovici.- Part II The Long View.- 2. Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions - Manuela Consonni.- 3. Attitudes to Islam and Muslims in the Christian Balkans - Frederick F. Anscombe.- 4. Moorish Blood: Islamophobia, Racism and the Struggle for the Identity of Modern Spain - Fernando Bravo López.- 5. Challenges of ‘The Jewish People’: Promises and Perils of Collective Identities - Cynthia M. Baker.- Part III The Short View.- 6. The Antisemitism Question and the Politics of Israel in Cold War America - Doug Rossinow. 7. The Rifle that Stands Between Us: Arab Intellectuals and the Jewish Question, 1839–2020 - Orit Bashkin.- 8. Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the “Golden Era” - G. Daniel Cohen.- Part IV The Present Day.- 9. DefiningAntisemitism: What Is the Point? - Brian Klug.- 10. ‘BDS today is no different from the SA in 1933’: Juridification, Securitisation and ‘Antifa’-isation of the Contemporary German Discourse on Israel–Palestine, Antisemitism and the BDS Movement - Peter Ullrich.- 11. Islamophobia, Antisemitism and the Struggle for Recognition: The Politics of Definitions - Tariq Modood.- 12. Does Defining Racism Help Overcome It? - Rebecca Ruth Gould.