This article discusses the establishment of Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem 1951. My claim is that missionary plan Mission to Jews was mitigated towards a programme biblical studies. Several factors contributed this transformation. The change facilitated relations with Israeli authorities. Another challenge overcome common Christian negative comprehension Zionism as mere materialisti...

Abstract The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, highlight dilemma between different uses popular culture context conflict resolution resistance. Our argument identifies represented wha...

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the American Racial Order:Revisiting Council for Judaism in Twenty-First Century Matthew Berkman (bio) In recent years, Jewish communal agencies, civil liberties watchdogs, pro-Israel advocates, supporters of Palestinian rights have publicly debated meaning antisemitism wisdom introducing certain formal definitions to adjudication US law.1 The self-assurance with...

This essay asks how Herzl’s play, The New Ghetto, can be read as a representation of the sociopolitical tensions which affected and influenced emancipated Jewish community in European capitals by end 19th century. Among pervading time, I discuss kinds Antisemitism birthed emancipation: both virulent kind that outright threatens stereotypes Jews, much subtle kind, those who are willing to includ...

In June 2020, Black Lives Matter UK (BLM-UK) posted a series of tweets in which they endorsed the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Calling for ‘targeted sanctions line with international law against Israel’s colonial, apartheid regime,’ one tweet claimed that ‘mainstream British politics is gagged right to critique Zionism’. The were seen by some be antisemitic result...