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Cornell Resources

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Various definitions of antisemitism that can contribute to constructive dialogue aimed at recognizing, preventing and combatting antisemitism are listed at the links below:

Online Resources

• Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – What is Antisemitism?
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
• https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
• https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
• ‘Backlash Effect’: Why the Middle East Conflict Triggers Hate Crimes in the US
• US Department of Justice –  Learn About Hate Crimes
• Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe – Addressing Antisemitism Through Education: Teaching Aids

Webinars and Lectures

• What Led to the Current War Between Israel and Hamas, Bassem Eid, Jerusalem-based political analyst and human rights pioneer.
• Antisemitism, the Israel-Hamas war, and Distorting the Law of Genocide: A Perfect Storm, Menachem Rosensaft, Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School.
• “Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: What’s the relationship?” Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies, Director Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA.
• Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after October 7, Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland) and Marc Lynch (George Washington University).
• “Let’s Talk About Anti-Zionism” Ethan Katz, Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley.
• Racializing Religion: Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Palestine, Sahar Aziz, Professor of law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers University Law School.
• Beyond Sympathy and Antisemitism: The International Community and the Creation of the State of Israel, 1947-1949, Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Harvard University.
• “Villains into Heroes: The Rehabilitation of Fascists and Antisemites in Europe and North America.” Robert Williams, Direct USC Shoah Foundation.
• Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, What’s the Relationship? with Professor Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies, UCLA.
• Antisemitism, the Israel Hamas-War and Distorting the Law of Genocide, A Perfect Storm with Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.
• Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
• What’s Jewish About Social Justice? Ruth Messinger, global ambassador and former president of American Jewish World Service, posed the question of how Judaism and social justice movements are connected.
• How Can History Help us? The Example of Anti-Semitism (Jewish Studies Lecture: David Nirenberg)
• Cornell Jewish Studies Lecture Archive
• How Can History Help us? The Example of Anti-Semitism (Jewish Studies Lecture: David Nirenberg)
• The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, reviews the intersection of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism in history and discuss why and for what purposes the figures of the Jew, the Muslim and the non-white serve as objects of loathing and fear today.

Readings

• Beller, S. (2015) Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction.
• Hübscher, M. and S. von Mering  (2022) Antisemitism on Social Media Routledge
• Lipstad, Deborah E. (2019) Antisemitism Here and Now New York: Schocken
• Nirenberg.  D. (2013), Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Norton