Kenneth Waltzer

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Cary Nelson |Kenneth Waltzer |Hedda Harari-Spencer

Fathom > October 2024 > The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative tweet share email print Hedda Harari-Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew at Tufts University. On 17 May the University of Pennsylvania held its 2024 commencement ceremonies. One of the speakers, a graduating PhD in Africana Studies and History, concluded his talk by asking the audience to hold Israel accountable...

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Cary Nelson |Kenneth Waltzer |Stuart Kamenetsky |Michael Feuer

Michael Feuer argues that the eruption of protests against Israel after 7 October sounded the alarm of resurgent antisemitism, which was not only horrifying in its own right but also as Deborah Lipstadt warned, symptomatic of pathology that affects everyone, not ‘just’ Jews.

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Kenneth Waltzer |Henry Srebrnik |Adam Sacks

Opened in 2024, the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews is the largest branch of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History. Adam J. Sacks suggests the ‘Litvak’ museum is an outstanding professional achievement but questions its failure to face the full truth of Lithuania’s wartime past and its tendency to ‘push too many shiny round Jewish pegs into modern-day ethnonationalist square holes’.