Professor Marc Volovici, the Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the University of Haifa, will discuss the book he co-edited, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Politics of Definition. This book, the first to explore the politics of definitions from an interdisciplinary perspective, encourages readers to reconsider the value and limits of definitions in confronting antisemitism and Islamophobia. In recent years, definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia have become central to the struggle to combat the hostility, harassment and discrimination experienced by Jews and Muslims. Yet these definitions have also provoked fierce controversy: Critics have questioned whether they are fit for purpose or have criticized them as unwelcome attempts to restrict freedom of expression.

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