PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM

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PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL ANTISEMITISMIn this podcast about global antisemitism, Evelyn Markus interviews guests worldwide about the rising antisemitism and how individuals can combat this. Guests have included American journalist Bari Weiss, author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Grammy-winning musician Winston Marshall, “The Equalizer” actor Adam Goldberg, and Germany’s antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein.

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Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

U.S. -- Dexter Van Zile -- Islamism and antisemitism in the West -- Ep. #67 29.11.2022

Dexter Van Zile is an investigative journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has researched and written extensively about Christian anti-Zionism. Since March of 2022 he has bee the managing editor of the website and online newsletter Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) established by the Middle East Forum -- https://www.meforum.org / He also recommended https://islamism.news/     F...

U.K. -- Winston Marshall -- Antisemitism in music industry -- Ep. #66 18.11.2022

Winston Marshall is a British musician, songwriter, and podcaster. He was the former banjoist and lead guitarist of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. With Mumford & Sons he has won multiple awards, including a Grammy. He has been credited as the father of the nu-folk scene in Britain. He left the band after he started to openly express his opinion about current affairs in society....

U.S. -- Brooke Ruttenberg -- Middle school antisemitism curriculum -- Ep. #65 05.11.2022

Brooke Ruttenberg is a senior at Windward School, a private high school in Los Angeles. She has been volunteering for several years at the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles. When she noticed a lack of education on antisemitism at her school, she decided to write a middle school curriculum herself --see  https://sites.google.com/windwardschool.org/history-into-action/home

U.S. -- Nicholas Melvoin -- Combatting antisemitism in LA schools -- Ep. #64 25.10.2022

Nicholas Melvoin is the vice president of the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District – LAUSD – and he represents District 4.    First elected in 2017, his work is focused on increasing parent and community engagement, transparency and accountability; directing more resources to schools; protecting the most vulnerable students; and bringing a new spirit of part...

Germany -- Verena Meier -- Antigypsyism in the past and now -- Ep. #63 13.10.2022

Verena Meier is a doctoral student at the research center on antigypsyism at the University of Heidelberg with research focusing on historical antigypsyism and antisemitism, National Socialism, minority history as well as the history of ideas. She has worked for the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, the Topography of Terror and the Saxony-Anhalt State archives, and volunt...

Israel -- Joanne Nihom -- Overcoming hate in Israel -- Ep. #62 28.09.2022

Joanne Nihom is a Jewish journalist and author who emigrated from the Netherlands to Israel in 2005. Her book  "Over Grenzen" -- Beyond Borders -- was published in the Netherlands and is now being translated into English. In her book she describes her own journey of developing friendly relationships with Arab people in Israel. The book includes her interviews with Arabs and Jews who...

Israel -- Akiva van Koningsveld -- Honest media reporting of Israel -- Ep. #61 22.09.2022

Akiva van Koningsveld lives in Israel and is editor at HonestReporting.com -- an organization that monitors the media’s coverage of Israel and then exposes and responds to inaccuracies and bias about Israel or Jews. When he still lived in the Netherlands, he was policy officer at The Center for Information and Documentation Israel, the Netherlands' leading organization in combating antisemitism an...

U.S. -- Mark Weitzman -- Defining what is antisemitism -- Ep. #60 16.09.2022

Mark Weitzman is Chief Operating Officer for the World Jewish Restitution Organization, where he plays a leading role in the organization’s advocacy and negotiations efforts to recover Jewish properties in Europe in pursuit of a measure of justice for Holocaust survivors, their families, and Jewish communities. He is a member of the official U.S. delegation to the International Holocaust Remembran...

Germany -- Terry Swartzberg -- Wearing a kippa in Europe -- Ep. #59 06.09.2022

Born in New York and resident in Munich, Terry Swartzberg is a leader in the commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust and the head of the Munich chapter of the Stolpersteine. Terry is also chair of Zikaron Holocaust Commemoration, the 501(c)(3) set up to enable Americans to support his commemoration work --  holocaustcommemoration.com

U.K. -- Danielle Greyman -- Suing Leeds University -- Ep. #58 29.08.2022

Danielle Greyman is a U.K. resident who, as a Leeds University senior, experienced blatant antisemitism targeting her academic work. There is now a lawsuit against Leeds University for this antisemitic occurrence

U.K. -- Joan Ryan -- Against antisemitism in a political party -- Ep. #57 23.08.2022

Rt. Hon Joan Ryan is the executive director of ELNET UK -- https://elnetwork.uk/ -- a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening relations between Europe and Israel based on shared democratic values and strategic interests. She was the UK Member of Parliament for Enfield North for 18 years. She resigned from the Labour Party in February 2019 citing the antisemitism crisis overwhelming the...

U.S. -- Randy Fried -- Educating young people -- Ep. #56 17.08.2022

Randy Fried is a Jewish communal professional and advocate for Holocaust education based in Los Angeles. He is the Director of Philanthropic Engagement & Communication at Tzedek America, an organization that seeks to strengthen Jewish identity. Randy is also active in the World Jewish Congress and is a senior educator for the Los Angeles teen delegation to the March of the Living.

U.S. -- Robert Williams -- Global perspective -- Ep. #55 04.07.2022

Robert Williams, PhD , is Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and a U.S. delegate to the 35-nation International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, for which he has chaired the committee on antisemitism and Holocaust denial, as well as several high-priority projects. He is a frequent speaker on genocide, antisemitism and the Holo...

U.S. -- Jonah Schwartz -- Employee speaks up against workplace antisemitism -- Ep. #54 27.06.2022

Jonah Schwartz is from Framingham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Gann Academy, a Jewish day school, in 2020. In high school Jonah was a fellow with the Holocaust Legacy Foundation. Through this fellowship he traveled to Berlin and Poland, visiting concentration camps and other Holocaust sites. He is currently a rising junior at Dickinson College, where he is double majoring in environmental st...

Germany -- Dr. Felix Klein -- German government against antisemitism -- Ep. #53 20.06.2022

Dr. Felix Klein is the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism. After studying law, Dr. Klein trained for the diplomatic service with the German Federal Foreign Office. Before he started in his current position, he served in the Federal Foreign Office as Special Representative for Relations with Jewish Organizations and Issues Relating to Antis...

U.S. -- Jonah Cohen -- Method for replying to antisemitism -- Ep. #52 16.06.2022

Jonah Cohen, PhD , is the communications director for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA -- https://www.camera.org/ ). He earned a PhD from the department of religions and philosophies at the University of London. His essays have appeared in both academic and popular news outlets, including the New Republic, the Hill, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Real Clea...

U.S. -- Michael Berenbaum -- Confronting EU Youth With Auschwitz -- Ep. #51 08.06.2022

Michael Berenbaum , PhD and rabbi, is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is the author of several nonfiction books about the Holocaust, and for those of you who watch documentaries about the Holocaust and antisemitism, he is a familiar in...

U.S. -- Lori Lowenthal Marcus -- Antisemitism in CA ethnic studies -- Ep. #50 01.06.2022

Lori Lowenthal Marcus is a lawyer in private practice in a Philadelphia suburb. She is also the Legal Director of The Deborah Project -- https://deborahproject.org/ -- a public interest law firm that represents people who are discriminated against in educational settings because they are Jewish and/or pro-Israel.

Israel -- Tomer Aldubi -- Fighting online antisemitism -- Ep. #49 25.05.2022

Tomer Aldubi is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit organization FIGHTING ONLINE ANTISEMITISM -- https://foantisemitism.org/en/ -- established in 2020. The organization was founded as a solution to the prevalence of online hate speech targeting the Jewish communities worldwide. Reporting antisemitic content on social media is easy and anonymous. The account/person who posted the content you repor...

Holland -- Femmetje de Wind -- The New Jews -- Ep. #48 20.05.2022

Femmetje de Wind is an author, journalist, entrepreneur and marketing consultant in The Netherlands. She has written two novels in Dutch titled “Rivka” and “The Promised Life” in which the struggle with Jewish identity and with the Holocaust history of the family are central themes. She is on the board of Crescas, the leading Jewish educational organization in the Netherlands about Jewish culture.

U.S. -- Bari Weiss -- Jews and American values -- Ep. #47 28.04.2022

Bari Weiss is a journalist and author and the editor of the newsletter Common Sense, which is at www.bariweiss.substack.com She is also the host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Bari was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that she was an op-ed editor and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal. For two years she was a senior editor at Tablet, the online maga...

U.S. -- EJ Kimball -- Christian outreach -- Ep. #46 25.04.2022

EJ Kimball is the Director of Christian Outreach and Engagement at the Combat Antisemitism Movement -- www.combatantisemitism.org -- a global grassroots movement of individuals and organizations across all religions and faiths, united to combat antisemitism. EJ is a foreign policy and national security consultant with 15 years experience working in Washington, DC. He is specialized in government r...

U.S. -- Blake Flayton -- College campus antisemitism -- Ep. #45 06.04.2022

Blake Flayton  is the director of new media and a weekly columnist at the Jewish Journal in Los Angeles. He is also the founder and executive director of the New Zionist Congress.

Holland -- Nikki Veltkamp -- Intersectionality of Jewish women -- Ep. #44 08.03.2022

Nikki Veltkamp studies politics, psychology, law and economics at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She recently wrote a paper about the vulnerability of Jewish women, and the paper is being considered for publication in the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism.

France -- Robert Ejnes -- Antisemitism in France -- Ep. #43 01.03.2022

Robert Ejnes is the Executive Director of CRIF, the umbrella organization of French Jewish institutions. He lives in a suburb of Paris where he is the president of the Jewish congregation there, and he is the president of the Zionist youth organization Bnei Akiva France.  He is also a business consultant who holds an MBA from Northwestern University in the United States. He and his wife Genev...

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