Professor Sahar Aziz hosted Holocaust and genocide scholar, Dr. Raz Segal, for a fireside chat on antisemitism and what Dr. Segal has described as Israel’s genocide in the Gaza strip starting on October 8, 2023. Dr. Raz Segal traces the emergence of antisemitism as a modern phenomenon tied to the nation-state and the late colonial world and its settler outposts. The struggle against antisemitism from the late 19th century, therefore, focused on protecting a group from exclusionary and violent states. Dr. Segal explains how the weaponization of this struggle as an Israeli state project since the 1990s shifted the focus away from a group, Jews, to protecting the state from criticism of its settler colonialism and violence against a people, Palestinians.
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