Resources

Guidance on Antisemitism: Addressing, Naming, and Defining

As an organization committed to addressing antisemitism and all forms of racism, the Jewish Faculty Network promotes understandings of antisemitism that centre it as a form of discrimination or racism directed towards Jewish people as Jewish people. We reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism and join the chorus of voices that view the IHRA as itself promoting anti-Palestinian racism and even antisemitism. We offer the resources below on antisemitism and the weaponization of antisemitism for individuals and organizations who are grappling with these issues.

Select Scholarship:

What is Wrong with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Antisemitism? Deckers and Coulter (2022)

The Toxic Other: The Palestinian Critique and Debates about Race and Racism. M. Ayyash (2022)

Antisemitism as Anti-Jewish Racism: Reflections on an Anti-Racist Analytic. Abigail Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban (2024)

Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition. Neve Gordon (2024)

Defending Jews From the Definition of Antisemitism. Mann and Yona (2024)

Reports:

Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing, and Manifestations. Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (prepared by Dania Majid) (2022)

Unveiling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada. Independent Jewish Voices (by Sheryl Nestel and Rowan Gaudet) (2022)

The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada. Independent Jewish Voices (by Sheryl Nestel) (2021)

Strengthening the Pillars: Report of the TMU External Review. The Honourable Michael McDonald (2023)

The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North. Jasmine Zine (2022)

Other Select Resources:

University of Toronto (Governing Council) v. Doe et al., 2024 ONSC 3755 (U of T Encampment Injunction Case and discussion of antisemitism)

Palestinian Rights and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism (2020) (Statement - 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, intellectuals, journalists)

The Perils of Universities’ Unscholarly Antisemitism Reports (2025) (Article - Peter Beinart)