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Kenneth S. Stern

Sep 1, 2022, 11:28 PM

Yes it may hurt, but campus groups have the right to exclude Zionists

Universities should set a tone of inclusion and remind students of the importance of academic freedom, but they must let them define their politics

Jan 25, 2022, 9:08 PM

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Antisemitism rests on intent not motive. It’s clear from the IHRA Definition

In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021 file photo, members of the Orthodox Jewish community walk past shipping containers in the South Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

The text we wrote avoids psychoanalyzing perpetrators and simply asks whether victims were selected because of their race, religion or other such category

Mar 4, 2021, 12:09 PM

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How to debate BDS on campus? Jonathan Marks says be reasonable

Illustrative: During 'Israel Apartheid Week' at Columbia University, pro-Israel students counter anti-Israel displays with a 12-foot-high Pinocchio doll meant to call attention to “lies about Israel,” March 1, 2016. (Courtesy Students Supporting Israel – Columbia)

In his new book on liberal education, the conservative professor argues the importance of inculcating the instinct for thought and reexamination

Feb 10, 2021, 12:42 PM

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We disagree about the Working Definition. That’s OK. Here’s what’s not.

Yes, I am the lead author, but ‘who wrote what’ isn’t as important as the question of how we best fight anti-Semitism today

Jan 19, 2021, 3:48 PM

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Can America inoculate against the dire threat of ‘us vs. them’?

Screenshot from The New Yorker's "A Reporter’s Video from Inside the Capitol Siege"

As false claims of a Trump victory stoke political violence, the US must launch a grand effort to rebuild a society in which disagreement is not deadly

Dec 10, 2020, 1:00 AM

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Steering the Biden administration wrong on anti-Semitism

A white supremacist leaves Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Of all the crucial steps the new government must take to protect Jews, adopting the IHRA definition I drafted should not be the top priority

Nov 23, 2020, 4:16 PM

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Zionism is not racism – BDS isn’t always anti-Semitism

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes part in a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights, near Merom Golan on the border with Syria, on November 19, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP)

US Sec of State Pompeo's declaration that the Israel boycott is anti-Jewish by definition is just the kind of false simplification we've seen before

Oct 16, 2020, 5:44 PM

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Examined Zionism: Mira Sucharov and belonging

In a thoughtful memoir, the author dives deep into her complex relationship with Israel: A chapter on cancel culture takes on the BDS litmus test

About Me

Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, and the author most recently of The Conflict over The Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate. For 25 years, he was the American Jewish Committee's expert on antisemitism, and he was also the lead drafter of the “Working Definition of Antisemitism."