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Having a blog addressing antisemitism is important for raising awareness and combating prejudice. It serves as an educational platform, dispelling misconceptions and promoting understanding. Providing links to resources about antisemitism helps readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this issue and encourages them to take informed action against discrimination and hatred.

International Psychoanalytic Study Group on Antisemitism

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Monday, February 02 2026

The Robert Fine Memorial Lecture: where are we now?

We are here to talk about antisemitism, but I’m going to start by instead talking about Star Wars. Bear with me. As I’m sure everyone knows, Star Wars tells the story of a heroic resistance struggling against a fascistic empire that commits genocide at the push of a…

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on “Old” and “New” Antisemitism

By Shmuel Erlich

Undertaking the deconstruction of a phenomenon as vast and age-old as antisemitism in the short time span of a panel may properly count as a sequel to the “Mission Impossible” series. But the significance and value of discus…

The Uncanny in the Normalization of Antisemitism

By Rosine Jozef Perelberg

This paper aims to explore whether psychoanalysis has a contribution to offer to an understanding of the current explosion of antisemitism, which has an extremely long history and is still at play in the present. Throug…

Rosine Jozef Perelberg: The Banalization of Antisemitism

As part of the series in summer semester 2024 “das ganze Grauen – Psychoanalytische Aufklärung nach dem 7. Oktober” of the student initiative krIPU at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Rosine Jozef Perelberg gave a lecture on “The Banalization of An…

PCCA Conference Series OTHERING and Hatred of DIVERSITY

Antisemitism is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of collective hatred. It mutates across time and place, taking on new language and symbols — yet remaining rooted in enduring projections of fear, envy, and blame.

Bari Weiss: Why Are Feminists Silent on Rape and Murder?

When Michelle Obama, Oprah, Malala Yousafzai, Angelina Jolie, Kim Kardashian – and the rest of the civilized world – saw the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram in April 2014, within days they took to Twitter and demanded “Bring Back Our Girls.�…

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Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism

For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the entire shameful story of Soviet Judeophobia but shows us that, to quot…

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Hating Israel more than is necessary

There is an old Jewish joke – attributed to Sir Isaiah Berlin, but really, who knows? – that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. Like all the best Jewish humour it is gently self-deprecating, mocking both Jews and antisemites, and …

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