Adam Louis-Klein

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Jul 3, 2025, 9:39 AM

The Antizionist Pseudo-Consensus

The central objective of the contemporary academy and much of the political left has been to manufacture a pseudo-consensus — not through evidence or critical reasoning, but through the relentless repetition of rumor. This pseudo-consensus simulated the appearance of...

Jun 19, 2025, 11:00 PM

Mamdani and the Replacement of the Victim

Zohran Mamdani’s response to being called out for promoting the antisemitic slogan “Globalize the Intifada”—a call to extend Islamist violence and terror internationally—offers a textbook example of what might be called the logic of victim-supersession and replacement central to...

Jun 18, 2025, 8:55 PM

The New Dreyfus Affair

One of the most disturbing and revealing features of the explosion of antisemitism since October 7 is how completely it has divided every layer of society—cutting across universities, media, political parties, cultural institutions, and even families. What we are...

Jun 15, 2025, 11:33 PM

Before Orthodoxy

Jewish tradition has always been more plural, symbolic, and visionary than its later codifiers acknowledged. It’s time we remembered. Contemporary Jewish discourse too often treats tradition as a closed, fixed system—something to be defended by repeating formulas rather than re-examining...

Jun 14, 2025, 3:27 PM

The central strategy of modern antizionism is the Flood. They flood Israel’s borders with militants and civilians prepared to commit atrocities against Israeli civilians. They flood the internet with Palestinian flags, antisemitic "laugh reacts," false claims, slogans, fabricated casualty numbers,...

Jun 13, 2025, 5:48 PM

The Moment of Reckoning That Never Came

Since October 7th, I’ve remained open—almost uncomfortably so—to the possibility that I was wrong. That what I understood as Jewish self-defense was in fact something more sinister. That Zionism, far from an indigenous liberation movement, might be, as critics...

Jun 12, 2025, 5:44 PM

The ‘Antisemitic Laugh React’

One striking phenomenon I have observed online is what might be called the “antisemitic laugh react.” Time and again, antizionist users compulsively hit the laugh emoji on every comment made by someone perceived to be Jewish or “Zionist,” regardless...

Jun 11, 2025, 6:01 PM

The Many Names of Jew-Hatred

Will antisemitism eventually be replaced by the term antizionism? It is worth asking whether, in time, the word antisemitism will fall out of usage—not because Jew-hatred has ended, but because its dominant form has changed so thoroughly that antizionism may...

Jun 10, 2025, 4:58 PM

The Sentimental Ethos of Antisemitism

Antisemitism has always called itself justice. In some sense, we shouldn’t be surprised. This isn’t the first time antisemitism has cloaked itself in sentimentalism and lofty ideals of justice and humanity. Christian antisemitism did exactly this: it opposed the love...

Jun 9, 2025, 6:05 PM

The Weight of the Chosen

The idea of the Jews as a Chosen People is perhaps one of the most persistent canards that rankles the gentile imagination. To claim the Jew as chosen is already to disrupt the preferred image of Jews as a...

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About Me

Adam Louis-Klein is a PhD candidate in anthropology at McGill University, where he researches antisemitism, Zionism, Jewish peoplehood, and broader questions of indigeneity and historical narrative. His work bridges academic scholarship and public commentary, drawing on fieldwork with Indigenous communities in the Amazon and studies in philosophy at Yale, the New School, and the University of Chicago. He writes on translation and the politics of peoplehood across traditions, and is committed to developing a Jewish intellectual voice grounded in historical depth and moral clarity.