White House Antisemitism Report Includes Encouraging Diagnoses — But Leans on Destructive Strategies

with Habiba Fahr.

“Recently, the Biden administration released the U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, an unprecedented report advancing a broad policy agenda to combat, as its name suggests, antisemitism. 

As researchers who study antisemitism and Islamophobia on the Right, we were encouraged that the report framed these oppressions within the broader upsurge in White supremacist violence that has targeted so many communities in recent years, and spoke compellingly of the connections between forms of oppression. We were discouraged, however, that some of the White House’s policy proposals cut against the intersectional approach we need, leaving the door open to flawed strategies—such as suppressing Israel-critical speech and expanding the police and security state—that harm Muslim and other communities, and ultimately do little to keep Jews safe.”

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