“Fifty Years Since UN Resolution 3379: Examining the Negation of Jewish Identity and Peoplehood in Public and Institutional Discourse”
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Location: Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK (and online)
Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm GMT
On November 10th, 1975, during former-Nazi Kurt Waldheim’s tenure as UN Secretary-General, the UN passed the resolution that Zionism is a form of racism. This seminar offers perspectives on how one of the critical aspects of antisemitism(s) has been external definitions of Jewish identity, extending into the extreme determination of national identity as moral injury. While the resolution was revoked in 1991, Dr. Charles Asher Small, D.Phil (Oxon) will analyse how the many manifestations of antisemitism(s) in the contemporary context normalise the denial and erasure ofJewish identity, peoplehood, and belonging. Dr. Daniel Allington will critique the Eurocentric character of much discourse on antisemitism(s) and examine the distinction between Judeophobic and antizionist antisemitism. Drawing on published literature and data, Dr. Allington will describe constructions and adaptations of European antisemitic views in Islamist thought adding another layer to contemporary antisemitic narratives.
Dr. Charles Asher Small, DPhil (Oxon): Founding Director and President of ISGAP, and Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination, and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, and Research Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University.
Dr. Daniel Allington: Reader in Social Analytics, King’s College, London; Senior Associate Fellow, Counter Extremism Group; Deputy Editor, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism.
Dr. Linda Blanshay, ISGAP Chief of Staff (moderator)
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