Jewish Peoplehood in an Age of Antizionism
…antisemitism is not a set of ideas to debate, but a structure of power. It mobilizes majorities to redefine what’s real—so that Jewish resistance, Jewish speech, Jewish life itself, becomes not just wrong, or criticizable, but illegible.
The Antizionist Pseudo-Consensus
Adam Louis-Klein discusses the way in which a system of Jew hatred has been built within academia and maintained by political power rather than Intellectual integrity. This system creates a fake sense of agreement (“pseudo-consensus”) by endlessly repeating rumors instead of using evidence or reason.
Indigeneity Between Genealogy and Power
In the settler-colonial contexts of the modern West—like the Americas or Australia—these two meanings overlap. The colonized were also the ancestral peoples. As a result, “indigeneity” comes to imply both firstness and oppression—producing a powerful rhetoric of double moral legitimacy: the right of original belonging fused with the moral capital of the victim. But this fusion breaks down in other regions—especially the Middle East.
Antisemitic Assimilation in Academia:When the Academy and Jewishness Collide
One of the ways antisemitic assimilation works in academia is through the structures of authority, respect, and citation. If a scholar embeds antisemitic assumptions into their work—framing Jews as settler-colonial, denying Jewish peoplehood, erasing Jewish indigeneity—and that work gains traction among the (mostly non-Jewish) academic majority, it becomes something everyone is expected to cite and “engage with.”