Reviel Netz

May 16, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jonathan Karp |Reviel Netz |Akiva Schick |Ze'ev Maghen

In our Winter 2024 Issue, Editor Abraham Socher, Jonathan Karp, and Reviel Netz debated the cause behind the surge of anti-Israel protests spreading across the US and the world. Are these just altered displays of antisemitism or something new? Read the continuing discussion, with new entries in the debate:Jonathan Karp asks a Marvin Gaye type of question: What’s Going On with Antisemitism? Reviel Netz continues to see something distinct from classic antisemitism.

May 16, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Reviel Netz |Akiva Schick |Gavriel D. Rosenfeld |Chloé Valdary

The Winter 2024 issue of the Jewish Review of Books included not one, but two essays on anti-Israelism (the term coined in Jonathan Karp’s trenchant piece). I am grateful—especially since its editor, Abraham Socher, remains skeptical. Antisemitism, he notes, was always plural, a set of ideas, practices, and attitudes that bear what Ludwig Wittgenstein called a family resemblance to each other: “The Pauline contempt . . . the hatred of the High Middle Ages . . .