Jarrod Tanny

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Nov 18, 2023, 7:44 PM

Israel Is Not a White Imperialist Project: A Toolkit

During a recent presentation on antisemitism, a viewer asked me an important question: “How do you argue with people who insist that Israel is a European imperialist state?” I have thought long and hard about this question and I decided...

Oct 22, 2023, 6:08 AM

A Modest Jewish Victory at UNC Chapel Hill

This will be a short piece, coming on the heels of a miserable two weeks for Jews who support Israel (and really for all Jews who are now living in fear) on college campuses. I shall not provide links, because...

Oct 13, 2023, 12:31 AM

Hamas, Jewish Studies, & Their War Against the Jews

The Jewish Studies Zionist Network, which I founded along with Dr. Adam Fuller (Youngstown State University), issued an important statement today because of the inexcusable behavior from Jewish studies. My academic field has shamefully refused to offer any robust...

Sep 2, 2023, 7:12 PM

Anti-Zionist Professors Force Stalinism into the Academy

On August 24, Mondoweiss – an avowedly Jewish media outlet whose radical leanings make Jewish Currents looks like Israel Hayom – announced with great fanfare the official launch of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, founded by...

Apr 26, 2023, 8:19 AM

Israel at 75 and the Persistence of Jew-hatred

Let’s talk about the denial of Israel as the Jewish ethno-national homeland, which is rooted in three interconnected claims. (1) The Jews lost their state two thousand years ago. (2) Zionism is the product of ethnic nationalism, and, accordingly, it is...

Jan 6, 2023, 12:07 AM

Jewish Studies and Our Abandonment to Antisemites

“Should I worry about my child taking a Jewish studies course in college with Professor *****? They have signed numerous statements calling Israel a Jewish supremacist genocidal state. Is this what they will learn in class?” Ever since I launched...

Aug 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

Among the antisemites: A response to Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart speaking at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Seattle, Washington, May 23, 2019 at an event sponsored by J Street (CC by Joe Mabel via Wikimedia)

Echoing dark conspiracy theories, Beinart has accused American Jewish organizations of smothering human rights around the globe

Aug 22, 2022, 10:45 AM

Bad history: A Jewish perspective on presentism

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) depicting Jews being burned alive for alleged host desecration in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 1338, and in Sternberg, Mecklenburg, 1492. (Wikimedia Commons)

A fracas among historians over how to frame the past begs the question of what happens when a straight line is drawn from the Crusades to Auschwitz

Jul 12, 2022, 5:21 PM

Anne Frank: Survivor, White Privileged Settler Colonialist

Note: I originally wrote a variation of this satirical piece in 2021, but in light of the recent “debate” as to whether Anne Frank enjoyed "white privilege", it deserves a second look. Imagine if Anne Frank had survived the war....

Jul 20, 2021, 3:39 AM

The Un-Jews Are the Enforcers: A Response to Shaul Magid

Shaul Magid’s “The Enforcers”, published in Tablet on July 14, 2021, is a lengthy critique of Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky’s now-canonical censure of anti-Zionist Jews in the academy. Troy and Sharansky branded these Jewish studies professors as “un-Jews”,...

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About Me

Jarrod Tanny is a Professor and the Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History in the Department of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa (Indiana University Press, 2011), and The Seinfeld Talmud: A Jewish Guide to a Show About Nothing (Academica Press, 2023). He is also the founder of the Jewish Studies Zionist Network, https://www.jsznetwork.org/