Resources on Antisemitism
Below is a list of resources to help you understand the threat posed by antisemitism. There are 1. reports on incidents/attacks, 2. reports on beliefs, 3. reports specifically on college campuses, 4. books on some of the top works on antisemitism, books categorized into 5. left-wing, 6. right-wing, 7. Islamic antisemitism and 8. books on the Holocaust, a list of 8. Jewish journals, 9. quantitative scholarly studies of antisemitism, 10. a list of national strategies and 11. a list of Jewish organizations.
Jewish Organizations
- World Jewish Congress
- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
- Yad Vashem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Internationa Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
- The Jewish Federation of North America
- Union of Reform Judaism (URJ)
- United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
- North American Association of Synagogue Executives
- Mercaz USA
- Chabad
- Orthodox Union
- Jewish Agency for Israel
- Nefesh B’Nefesh
- American Jewish Committee
- Anti-Defamation League
- Jewish National Fund (JNF)
- Hadassah
- Jewish on Campus
- Amcha Initiative
- Alums for Campus Fairness
- StopAntisemitism.org
- Campaign Against Antisemitism
- Academic Engagement Network
- Students Supporting Israel
- Israel on Campus Coalition
- Stand With Us
- Hillel International
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
- Birthright Foundation
- American Zionist Movement (AZM)
- Israeli American Council (IAC)
- Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF)
- UN Watch
- NGO Monitor
- Claims Conference: Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
- World Zionist Organization (WZO)
Reports on College Campuses
- Amcha Initiative: Campus Antisemitism & the Assault on Jewish Identity (2022)
- Amcha Initiative: Faculty Academic Boycotters, Ground Zero for Campus Antisemitism (2022)
- Amcha Initiative: Falling Through the Cracks: How School Policies Deny Jewish Students Equal Protection from Antisemitism (2022)
- StopAntisemitism.org: Antisemitism on U.S. College Campuses, Report Card (2022)
- Jewish on Campus: Antisemitism Annual Report (2021)
- The ADL-Hillel Campus Antisemitism Survey: 2021
- ADL: Anti-Israel Activism on U.S. Campuses, 2021-2022
- Alums for Campus Fairness: A Growing Threat: Antisemitism on College Campuses: A Survey of College Students and Recent Alums on Campus Antisemitism (2021)
- AEN: From Scholarship to Swastikas: Explaining Campus Antisemitic Events
- UK: Campaign Against Antisemitism: Monitoring Antisemitism in Universities
Some Scholarly Studies of Antisemitism
- Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum (2022)
- Trends in Jewish Young Adult Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism in America from 2017 to 2019 (2021)
- Antisemitism on a California Campus: Perceptions and Views Among Students (2020)
- Explaining Ethnoreligious Minority Targeting: Variation in U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents (2020)
- Validating and testing a measure of anti-semitism on support for QAnon and vote intention for Trump in 2020 (2020)
Reports on Incidents, Attacks (USA)
- ADL: Audit of Antisemitic Incidents (2021)
- The Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry: Antisemitism Worldwide Report (2021)
- StopAntisemitism.org: Antisemitism in Corporate America, Report Card (2021)
- ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents and other information combined and categorized by Jewish Virtual Library, 1979-2021
- WZO: The State of Antisemitism in 2021
- FBI Hate Crime by Religious Bias Reports combined and categorized by Jewish Virtual Library, 1996-2020
- Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH): Failure to Protect: How tech giants fail to act on user reports of antisemitism (2021)
- UN: Report on combating antisemitism to eliminate discrimination and intolerance based on religion or belief (2019)
Reports on Incidents, Attacks (UK, Europe)
- EU: Overview of antisemitic incidents recorded in the European Union 2011-2021
- EU: The rise of antisemitism online during the pandemic: A study of French and German content (2021)
- CST: Antisemitic Incidents, January to June 2022 (UK)
- CST: Annual Report of Antisemitic Incidents (2021, UK)
- EU: Heroes and scapegoats: Right-wing extremism in digital environments (2021)
- UK: Campaign Against Antisemitism: Monitoring Antisemitism in Political Parties
- UK: Gnasher Jew: Elected Antisemitic UK Labour Party Officials
- UK: Campaign Against Antisemitism: National Antisemitic Crime Audit (2016)
- UK: Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC): Investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party (2021)
- World Jewish Congress: Report on antisemitism in Germany
Other Reports
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) Hate Crime Statistics
- Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): The Year in Hate and Extremism Report (2021)
- Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Research Department Reports
- UN Watch Reports
- NGO Monitor Reports
- UK: Antisemitism Policy Trust Reports
- UK: David Collier investigative journalist reports
Reports on Attitudes
- ADL: Antisemitic Attitudes in America: Topline Findings (2023)
- AJC: The State of Antisemitism in America in 2021: Comparing American Jews and the General Public (2021)
- UK: Campaign Against Antisemitism: Antisemitism Barometer (2021)
- ADL: Global 100 Survey (2019)
- Claims Conference: Survey of Holocaust Knowledge for 50 US State, US National, UK, France, Austria, Canada (2020)
- Pew Research: What Americans Know About the Holocaust (2020)
- EU: Young Jewish Europeans: perceptions and experiences of antisemitism (2019)
- EU: Special Eurobarometer 484, Perceptions of Antisemitism Report (2018)
- EU: Experiences and perceptions of antisemitism: Second survey on discrimination and hate crime against Jews in the EU (2018)
Best Overall Books
- Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews by Jonathan Fox and Lev Topor (2022)
- People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn (2022)
- How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss (2021)
- Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt (2019)
- Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg (2014)
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (2007) by Saul Friedlander
- Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History by James Carroll (2002)
Books on Islamic Antisemitsm
- Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius (2018)
- Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Bary Rubin & Wolfgang G. Schwanitz (2014)
- Islam and Nazi Germany’s War by David Motadel (2014)
- The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust by Edwin Black (2010)
- Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf (2009)
- In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands (2010) by Martin Gilbert
Books on Left-wing Antisemitism
Books on Christian, Right-wing Antisemitism
- Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg (2014)
- Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History by James Carroll (2002)
- The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain (2001) by Benzion Netanyahu
- The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (2002) by David E. Kertzer
- The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism (2002) by Joshua Trachtenberg
- Luther’s Jews: A Journey into Anti-Semitism (2017) by Thomas Kaufmann
Books on the Holocaust
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (2007) by Saul Friedlander
- The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (1987) by Martin Gilbert
- The Holocaust and North Africa (2019) edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Stein
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (2017) by Christopher R. Browning
- Holocaust: An American Understanding (2016) by Deborah Lipstadt
- The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (2015) by David I. Kertzer
- Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1994) by Deborah Lipstadt
- Beyond Belief: The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945 (1993) by Deborah Lipstadt
- Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust (2008) by Theodore S. Hamerow
- The Destruction of European Jews (1961) by Raul Hilberg
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