THE HORSESHOE CURVE OF ANTISEMITISM: WHERE LEFT & RIGHT MEET

Description

Examining where Christian Nationalism and the Democratic Socialists of America converge.

Location

ONLINE

Date & Time

MONDAYS, 12-1:30pm (ET), Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

 "The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews."

 

-- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Course Description: 

For much of the 20th and 21st centuries antisemitism has often been seen as the core of extreme right-wing politics from the KKK and John Birch Society to Fascism and the Nazis yet it has also been a core of the left from the Communist Party to Stalin to Corbin in Britian to European Green Parties antisemitism has been rampant. Even before October 7th we have been witnessing growing anti-Jewish hate often couched in terms of anti-Zionism explode into a global epidemic. This four-week course will explore left and right anti-Jewish hate and its origins and look at the directions this hate is moving. We will also discuss how we as a community can fight back.

MONDAYS, 12-1:30pm (ET)

DATES: Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2026

About the Instructor:
 
Dr. Samuel Edelman has served as the first executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. Currently he is one of the founding faculty members of the new Academic Council for Israel, and its executive director, and a member of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN).  Edelman is  an Academic Fellow and an adjunct professor of Israel Studies and Zionism of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami and a lecturer at Florida Atlantic University LifeLong Learning Society and for the Miami-Dade CAJE. He is the former Director of the Israel on Campus Coalition Academic Affairs Department and the National Academic Network and its Fellows Program.  He is also an emeritus professor of Jewish, Israel and Holocaust Studies as well as Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In addition to being one of the key academics fighting against BDS on campuses and in academic professional organizations, he continues to lecture and teach on subjects such as Anti-Semitism, Genocide, Holocaust and resistance, the Arab Israeli conflict, Zionism, the Arab Spring, The Changing Map of the Middle East, Jewish Peoplehood, the history of Israel and more. Edelman is also the co-director of the California State Center of Excellence in Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance Education. Edelman is currently completing a new book entitled the Age of Hate with his wife and colleague, Prof. Carol Edelman. 
 
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