Alongside an emboldened far right, the rapid spread of disinformation and conspiracies – particularly since Covid-19 – has created fertile ground for antisemitism. Meanwhile the weaponization of antisemitism and its conflation with anti-Zionism has not only been an attempt to target and silence the Jewish Left, but to undermine leftist solidarity, leaving all of us less safe.
Safety Through Solidarity goes much of the way of explaining how we got here. Shane Burley and Ben Lorber painstakingly outline what antisemitism means, and the ways in which it has developed from its roots in European Christianity, carefully dispelling myths that feed into rightwing narratives around everything from Palestinian freedom to conspiracies about Jews and global power.
