Episode 9: David and Goliath

Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History

In the decades following the Six-Day War in 1967, anti-Zionism gained momentum in American academia and led to the rise of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement on college campuses. Nearly sixty years later, the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, revealed how antisemitism and progressive critiques of Israel’s war in Gaza could find a home in American universities.

Featuring: Rachel Fish, Cary Nelson, Michael Feuer, Alana Mondschein, Adena Kirstein, and Yair Rosenberg 

Narrated by Mark Oppenheimer

Written by John Turner and Lincoln Mullen 

This series is made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the David Bruce Smith Foundation. 

Antisemitism, U.S.A. is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

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