'Aliya' and antisemitism: US Zionism in the world, 1948 to the present

BISA seminar (recorded on 3/12/24) - During the 75 years after the creation of the State of Israel, Zionists in the United States achieved hegemony in American Jewry and served as a pillar of support for Israel. During this period of time, antisemitism declined sharply in US society, culture, and politics, although it remained an important concern for liberal thinkers and political actors, and beginning in the 1970s many spoke of a “new antisemitism” that reflected hostility to Jewish power and status. How did the changing position of Jews in North American society, and shifting ways of talking about Judeophobia, shape the American wing of the transnational Zionist movement? In this seminar, Professor Douglas Rossinow (Metro State University, St. Paul, Minnesota) explains these issues by examining themes and events in US Zionism’s history after 1948 in national, transnational, and international contexts.