@dovwaxman.bsky.social
Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor at UCLA. My research and writing focus on Israel-Palestine, contemporary antisemitism, Jewish politics, US-Israel relations, Israeli politics, and Middle East politics.
An article, quoting me, about the recent launch at the Doha Forum of the "Granada Declaration of Principles on Combatting Islamophobia and Antisemitism," which I co-authored: momentmag.com/doha-dispatc...
Join us on 2 December to hear Prof. @dovwaxman.bsky.social on ‘The moral panic in America about antisemitism on college campuses’. Book here: bit.ly/49Bp4Ia
30 years ago today Israel's then prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist, after a campaign of incitement against Rabin led by Netanyahu. Tragically, Rabin's murder deprived the Oslo peace process of the one Israeli leader who could have enabled it to succeed.
The president who hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner
You can’t be for Jewish safety and use dog whistles like “globalist.” And you can’t claim you have zero tolerance for antisemitism while winking and waving at it so long as it’s sufficiently subtle.
We do not join Jonathan Greenblatt in thanking the Heritage Foundation's President Kevin Roberts for trying to have it both ways.
You can’t condemn antisemitism and not condemn those ushering it into the mainstream.
“Giving Netanyahu and his far-right allies carte blanche to do what they like in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank does not protect Jews, it makes them less safe,” explain @dovwaxman.bsky.social & @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social’s @jeremybenami.bsky.social.
One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
www.972mag.com/israelis-log...
Me too. I've seen some previous surveys of Jewish college students showing that most think it's antisemitic to reject Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, but it's unclear exactly how that common phrase is interpreted by people.
It seems US Jews are okay with criticizing Israel, which has become widespread within the Jewish community, but not with punitive actions, which remains controversial. Also divestment is linked with the wider BDS movement in people's minds, which Jews have been told for many years is antisemitic.
Roughly three-quarters of Jewish Americans said that challenging Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is antisemitic.
What U.S. Jews think is antisemitic: 22% say it's antisemitic to criticize Israel for its actions in Gaza; 54% say it’s antisemitic to demand universities divest from firms doing business with Israel; and 71 % say it's antisemitic to claim U.S. Jews bear responsibility for Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Many more U.S. Jews now believe that the Democratic Party is “unfriendly” to Jews (52% in 2025 compared with 36% who said this in a 2020 survey), while more U.S. Jews now believe that the Republican Party is “friendly” to Jews.
Most U.S. Jews are skeptical of Trump’s campaign to fight antisemitism on college campuses, with nearly two-thirds believing he is conducting it for other reasons. A large majority (69%) think the Trump administration's task force will not be effective at reducing antisemitism on college campuses.
Jewish Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to say there is “a lot” of antisemitism on college campuses (76% vs. 31 %).
44% of U.S. Jews said there is “a lot” of antisemitism on college and university campuses, but Jews under the age of 35, most of whom have attended college in the past decade, are more likely than Jews in general to say there is “not much” or “none at all.”
Although there has hardly been any change since 2020 in Jewish perceptions of how much antisemitism there is in the U.S., there has been a significant increase in the % of U.S Jews who have "avoided publicly wearing, carrying or displaying anything that might help people identify them as Jewish."
There are some interesting findings in this new Washington Post survey of Jewish Americans: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
I'm proud to have contributed a short essay, co-authored with @jeremybenami.bsky.social, to this much-needed report by @nexusproject.bsky.social. I hope you'll read it and share it.
Very good piece.
I just did an op-ed @thecjn.bsky.social specifically to define those terms!! thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...
This hateful antisemitic vandalism in Minneapolis is alarming and unacceptable.
Targeting synagogues with anti-Zionist/anti-Israel slogans isn’t political activism — it’s harassing and threatening Jewish communities.
I was very glad to write this article and I hope people pay attention to it. It’s very important.
Excellent article and, as you said, very important.
I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...
I agree with this smart analysis by @alonpinkas.bsky.social: Hold that Nobel Prize: This Peace Plan Will Die, and Bibi Will Kill It newrepublic.com/article/2015...
