Bridging Divides: Understanding Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Bridging Divides: Understanding Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Event Details:

  • Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
  • Time: 5:00- 6:30 p.m.
  • Location: Gerlinger Lounge
  • Audience: All UO community. Limited capacity. Priority given to UO students, who are encouraged to arrive early.

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While most can agree that antisemitism and Islamophobia are harmful and divisive, in the current context of war in the Middle East it seems hard to agree on what they actually mean, what discourses and conduct they describe, and what we should do to try to combat them. Two leading scholars and public intellectuals, David Schraub (Lewis and Clark Law School) and Hussein Ibish (Arab Gulf States Institute, formerly American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), will help us understand antisemitism and Islamophobia historically as well as in this complicated and confusing moment.

Featured Speakers:

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Hussein Ibish
Senior Resident Scholar, Arab Gulf States Institute
Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a regular columnist for The National, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast. He has written numerous books and essays including his recent book What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal (ATFP, 2009). Ibish was included in all three years (2011, 2012, and 2013) of Foreign Policy’s “Twitterati 100,” the magazine’s list of 100 “must-follow” Twitter feeds on foreign policy. 

Ibish previously served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and executive director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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David Schraub
Associate Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School
David Schraub is an Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School, teaching constitutional law and anti-discrimination law. He is a prolific writer on contemporary issues of racism and antisemitism. He is a lead drafter of the "Nexus" document on antisemitism, which parses antisemitism and discourse on Israel, and was referenced in President Biden's 2023 National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. In 2023, he co-convened the second annual Law vs. Antisemitism Conference, an international event which drew speakers from the US and abroad, culminating in a special issue in the Lewis & Clark Law Review. His most recent academic work explores dilemmas faced by university administrators regulating campus protests and other free speech controversies. David holds a BA from Carleton College, a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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