Joel Swanson is an assistant professor of religion and Jewish studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He holds a doctorate in the history of Judaism from the University of Chicago, and in addition to academic publications, his work has been published in the Forward, Haaretz, Religion Dispatches, Slate, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Honoring three far-right Israeli ministers was an indefensible political choice
Students don't want campus Jewish life to come with a strictly enforced political agenda
A new House report on campus antisemitism seems to have involved minimal engagement with actual Jews at actual universities
A new report makes clear how profoundly both the left and the right have failed to address a growing crisis
New social media posts are a reminder that far-right Zionism shares roots with other forms of nationalism
New conditions on federal security grants pit Jews' safety against that of immigrants
It's deceptive and conspiratorial to suggest that Israel forced the US into this conflict
Antisemitic rhetoric has shown itself to be deeply intertwined with anti-immigrant actions
פֿאַר סטודענטן זענען די ייִדישע אונטערקעפּלעך זייער ניצלעך ווײַל זיי העלפֿן בעסער פֿאַרשטיין וואָס די אינטערוויויִרטע זאָגן
