Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism

Template:Infobox document The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) is a scholarly statement issued on 25 March 2021 by an international group of scholars in antisemitism, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel, Palestine and Middle East studies. Coordinated at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, it was drafted as an alternative to the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.

Definition

Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish).

The 15 guidelines

The JDA provides 15 guidelines divided into three sections. The guidelines focusing on Israel-Palestine (numbers 6–15) should be read together and always in context.

A. General

• It is racist to essentialize (treat a character trait as inherent) or to make sweeping negative generalizations about a given population. What is true of racism in general is true of antisemitism in particular.
• What is particular in classic antisemitism is the idea that Jews are linked to the forces of evil. This stands at the core of many anti-Jewish fantasies, such as the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in which “the Jews” possess hidden power that they use to promote their own collective agenda at the expense of other people. This linkage between Jews and evil continues in the present: in the fantasy that “the Jews” control governments with a “hidden hand,” that they own the banks, control the media, act as “a state within a state,” and are responsible for spreading disease (such as Covid-19). All these features can be instrumentalized by different (and even antagonistic) political causes.
• Antisemitism can be manifested in words, visual images, and deeds. Examples of antisemitic words include utterances that all Jews are wealthy, inherently stingy, or unpatriotic. In antisemitic caricatures, Jews are often depicted as grotesque, with big noses and associated with wealth. Examples of antisemitic deeds are: assaulting someone because she or he is Jewish, attacking a synagogue, daubing swastikas on Jewish graves, or refusing to hire or promote people because they are Jewish.
• Antisemitism can be direct or indirect, explicit or coded. For example, “The Rothschilds control the world” is a coded statement about the alleged power of “the Jews” over banks and international finance. Similarly, portraying Israel as the ultimate evil or grossly exaggerating its actual influence can be a coded way of racializing and stigmatizing Jews. In many cases, identifying coded speech is a matter of context and judgement, taking account of these guidelines.
• Denying or minimizing the Holocaust by claiming that the deliberate Nazi genocide of the Jews did not take place, or that there were no extermination camps or gas chambers, or that the number of victims was a fraction of the actual total, is antisemitic.

B. Israel and Palestine: examples that, on the face of it, are antisemitic

• Applying the symbols, images and negative stereotypes of classical antisemitism (see guidelines 2 and 3) to the State of Israel.
• Holding Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s conduct or treating Jews, simply because they are Jewish, as agents of Israel.
• Requiring people, because they are Jewish, publicly to condemn Israel or Zionism (for example, at a political meeting).
• Assuming that non-Israeli Jews, simply because they are Jews, are necessarily more loyal to Israel than to their own countries.
• Denying the right of Jews in the State of Israel to exist and flourish, collectively and individually, as Jews, in accordance with the principle of equality.

C. Israel and Palestine: examples that, on the face of it, are not antisemitic

(whether or not one approves of the view or action)

• Supporting the Palestinian demand for justice and the full grant of their political, national, civil and human rights, as encapsulated in international law.
• Criticizing or opposing Zionism as a form of nationalism, or arguing for a variety of constitutional arrangements for Jews and Palestinians in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. It is not antisemitic to support arrangements that accord full equality to all inhabitants “between the river and the sea,” whether in two states, a binational state, unitary democratic state, federal state, or in whatever form.
• Evidence-based criticism of Israel as a state. This includes its institutions and founding principles. It also includes its policies and practices, domestic and abroad, such as the conduct of Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, the role Israel plays in the region, or any other way in which, as a state, it influences events in the world. It is not antisemitic to point out systematic racial discrimination. In general, the same norms of debate that apply to other states and to other conflicts over national self-determination apply in the case of Israel and Palestine. Thus, even if contentious, it is not antisemitic, in and of itself, to compare Israel with other historical cases, including settler-colonialism or apartheid.
• Boycott, divestment and sanctions are commonplace, non-violent forms of political protest against states. In the Israeli case they are not, in and of themselves, antisemitic.
• Political speech does not have to be measured, proportional, tempered, or reasonable to be protected under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and other human rights instruments. Criticism that some may see as excessive or contentious, or as reflecting a “double standard,” is not, in and of itself, antisemitic. In general, the line between antisemitic and non-antisemitic speech is different from the line between unreasonable and reasonable speech.

Positive case by its supporters

Supporters, including coordinator Brian Klug and David Feldman (Director of the Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London), argue the JDA strengthens the fight against antisemitism by grounding it in universal anti-racist principles and human rights rather than exceptionalising Jewish experience. Feldman has stated it “holds open a critical space for discussion and debate” on Israel/Palestine, protecting legitimate criticism, BDS and anti-Zionist positions while still identifying genuine antisemitism. He describes it as a tool that distinguishes antisemitism from political speech and avoids the conflation of anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred that he sees in the IHRA definition. Supporters emphasise that the JDA better serves both Jews and democratic debate by refusing to police political positions on Israel while still confronting real antisemitism.

Main Zionist objections

Zionist and pro-Israel critics argue that the JDA legitimises anti-Zionism and BDS, weakens protections for Jews, and prioritises free speech over combating left-wing antisemitism.

• Cary Nelson (former president of the American Association of University Professors) titled his critique “The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Is Itself Antisemitic”. He writes that the JDA “seeks to find a space ostensibly critical of antisemitism that can accommodate both established anti-Semites and less virulent anti-Zionists who cross a line into antisemitism” and accuses it of “accommodating the new antisemitism”.
• Community Security Trust (CST) stated: “The Jerusalem Declaration has some serious flaws… Instead, it reads like guidelines for an academic seminar on Israel and Palestine… calling this a definition of antisemitism and suggesting it could replace a widely-accepted practical tool used by investigators and hate crime monitors is irresponsible and risks setting back genuine efforts to tackle antisemitism.”
• BESA Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) published an article titled “The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Is Itself Antisemitic”.

• 'Israeli' academic Gerald Steinberg and American historian Asaf Romirowsky said that the Jerusalem Declaration legitimizes increasing violence against Jews and their institutions by politicizing and attempting to undermine efforts to reach a consensus on antisemitism. The authors criticized the declaration for its extensive use of "weasel words" like "on the face of it" and "in and of itself/themselves", which they said obscures the fact that arguments are often reinterpreted in different contexts and take on meaning beyond that of the words used to express them. The authors also claimed the declaration "marginalizes the core issues of antisemitism" by subordinating it to the fight against all other forms of discrimination.
• David Hirsh, a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths University of London, criticized the declaration on the grounds that it "does not help the fight against antisemitism", and has a blind spot for antisemitism that originates on the political left. The JDA, he wrote, is flawed because it "asks institutions to affirm that BDS ... singling out Israel as uniquely colonial or apartheid, and saying that Israel has no right to exist, are not, 'in and of themselves', antisemitic", when, according to Hirsh, those things "are at the heart of contemporary left antisemitism".
• Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, criticized the Jerusalem Declaration on the basis that it seeks to accommodate manifestations of "new antisemitism" rather than challenge them. Nelson said the declaration's preamble is dismissive of the ways that antisemitism has stood apart from other forms of racism historically and how that history has shaped Jewish identity. He also said it makes generalizations about antisemitism that do not apply under many circumstances, like claiming that the hallmark of classic antisemitism is "the idea that Jews are linked to the forces of evil". He also said that many amongst the signers of the declaration are "anti-Zionists who cross a line into antisemitism", including a historian at the University of Connecticut who, Nelson alleged, believed that medieval blood libel was true.
• Joshua Muravchik, a professor at the Institute of World Politics, criticized it for seeking to contextualize antisemitism within a broader fight against all other forms of discrimination because that framing ignores that Jews are often discriminated against by other minorities. He said that by claiming "that the struggle against anti-Semitism is inseparable from similar struggles, the JDA seems to be addressing the wrong audience; much of the anti-Semitism that plagues Jews arises from non-majority groups".

Response to criticism

In the Zionist propaganda journal Fathom (launched by British lobby group BICOM, articles from April and May 2021, Michael Walzer, an original signer of the Jerusalem Declaration, responded to criticisms registered against him and the declaration, and reaffirmed his support for the IHRA definition. He conceded that like the IHRA definition, the Jerusalem Declaration could be misinterpreted. He said the organizers of the declaration should have rejected the signatures of the declaration's "antisemitic signatories". He also said he had signed the declaration because he "thought that JDA offered to create a little distance, nothing more, between antisemitism and the Israel/Palestine battles" which he said he knows "often overlap". With regard to calls to repeal the IHRA definition in Great Britain, he said that "rescinding IHRA or replacing it with a definition perceived as more permissive would send a very bad message to students and teachers at British universities".

Left and anti-Zionist criticisms

• Phil Bevin (British socialist writer) criticised the JDA in a detailed post (widely shared and promoted by David Miller on X). He wrote: “Rather than pinning down antisemitism as a specific form of racism, the Jerusalem Declaration opens it up for specious argument and debate.” Bevin argued that by seeking compromise with liberal-Zionist scholars, the document restricts the left’s ability to thoroughly scrutinise Israel’s role in global military and financial structures.
• BDS Movement / Palestinian civil society stated: “Palestinians, the Palestine solidarity movement, and all progressives are urged to approach the JDA with a critical mind and caution due to its flaws… it is focused on Palestine/Israel and Zionism, unjustifiably reinforcing attempts to couple anti-Jewish racism with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.” They criticised the exclusion of Palestinian scholars from drafting.
• Muhannad Ayyash (M. M. Ayyash), Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University: “The JDA is an orientalist text that fails to produce true opposition to the core problem of the IHRA definition: the silencing and erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.” “I am saying that they all have signed an orientalist text.” Ayyash criticises the preamble and guidelines for framing Palestinian hostility to Israel as potentially “an emotion that a Palestinian person feels” rather than a legitimate political response to occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. He argues that the declaration presents Palestinians as unreasonably "hostile, reactionary, and emotional". Ayyash also challenges the declaration's 10th guideline, which categorizes "Denying the right of Jews in the State of Israel to exist and flourish, collectively and individually, as Jews, in accordance with the principle of equality" as inherently antisemitic, arguing that "there is very little substantive difference between this guideline and the IHRA definition's claim that arguing that Israel is a racist endeavour constitutes antisemitism".

• Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) warned that the JDA’s hyper-focus on speech regarding Israel risks a “chilling effect” on Palestinian advocacy and mistakenly separates anti-Jewish hatred from white-supremacist roots.
• Tom Suarez warned that the JDA validates the flawed IHRA definition and is “structurally defective” because it allows Zionism to dictate the boundaries of anti-racist criticism. He also criticised the “all-Jewish affair” drafting process that excluded Palestinian input.
• Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) argued the JDA falls into the trap of situating Israel-Palestine at the centre of conversations about antisemitism, distracting from the real threat of white supremacy and the far right.
• The Electronic Intifada warned the JDA could be weaponised against the Palestinian right of return by deeming demands that threaten Israel’s Jewish demographic character as antisemitic.
• Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) described the JDA as “a useful corrective” but maintained that any formal definition risks being weaponised by party elites to suppress dissent on the socialist left.

People

Coordinators

The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was coordinated by the following scholars:

Name	Affiliation
Seth Anziska	Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London
Aleida Assmann	Professor Dr., Literary Studies, Holocaust, Trauma and Memory Studies, Konstanz University
Alon Confino (Z"L)	Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Director Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Emily Dische-Becker	Journalist
David Feldman	Professor, Director of the Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
Amos Goldberg	Professor, The Jonah M. Machover Chair in Holocaust Studies, Head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Brian Klug	Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford; Member of the Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum	Professor Dr., Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin

Signatories

The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was initially signed by around 210 scholars and has since grown to over 370 signatories. The full updated list is maintained on the official JDA website: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/signatories/

Name	Affiliation
Ludo Abicht	Professor Dr., Political Science Department, University of Antwerp
Taner Akçam	Professor, Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair Armenian History and Genocide, Clark University
Gadi Algazi	Professor, Department of History and Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University
Seth Anziska	Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London
Aleida Assmann	Professor Dr., Literary Studies, Holocaust, Trauma and Memory Studies, Konstanz University
Jean-Christophe Attias	Professor, Medieval Jewish Thought, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL Paris
Leora Auslander	Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization in the College and Professor of European Social History, Department of History, University of Chicago
Bernard Avishai	Visiting Professor of Government, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
Angelika Bammer	Professor, Comparative Literature, Affiliate Faculty of Jewish Studies, Emory University
Omer Bartov	John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University
Almog Behar	Dr., Department of Literature and the Judeo-Arabic Cultural Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
Moshe Behar	Associate Professor, Israel/Palestine and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester
Peter Beinart	Professor of Journalism and Political Science, The City University of New York (CUNY); Editor at large, Jewish Currents
Elissa Bemporad	Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust; Professor of History, Queens College and The City University of New York (CUNY)
Sarah Bunin Benor	Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Wolfgang Benz	Professor Dr., fmr. Director Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin
Doris Bergen	Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of History and Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Werner Bergmann	Professor Emeritus, Sociologist, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin
Michael Berkowitz	Professor, Modern Jewish History, University College London
Lila Corwin Berman	Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, Temple University
Louise Bethlehem	Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Cultural Studies, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Biale	Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis
Leora Bilsky	Professor, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Monica Black	Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Daniel Blatman	Professor, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Omri Boehm	Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York
Daniel Boyarin	Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, UC Berkeley
Christina von Braun	Professor Dr., Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
Micha Brumlik	Professor Dr., fmr. Director of Fritz Bauer Institut-Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, Frankfurt am Main
Jose Brunner	Professor Emeritus, Buchmann Faculty of Law and Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University
Darcy Buerkle	Professor and Chair of History, Smith College
John Bunzl	Professor Dr., The Austrian Institute for International Politics
Michelle U. Campos	Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University
Francesco Cassata	Professor, Contemporary History Department of Ancient Studies, Philosophy and History, University of Genoa
Naomi Chazan	Professor Emerita of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bryan Cheyette	Professor and Chair in Modern Literature and Culture, University of Reading
Stephen Clingman	Distinguished University Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Raya Cohen	Dr., fmr. Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University; fmr. Department of Sociology, University of Naples Federico II
Alon Confino	Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Director Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sebastian Conrad	Professor of Global and Postcolonial History, Freie Universität Berlin
Deborah Dash Moore	Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Natalie Zemon Davis	Professor Emerita, Princeton University and University of Toronto
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi	Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hasia R. Diner	Professor, New York University
Arie M. Dubnov	Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies and Director Judaic Studies Program, The George Washington University
Debórah Dwork	Director Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
Yulia Egorova	Professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Director Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics
Helga Embacher	Professor Dr., Department of History, Paris Lodron University Salzburg
Vincent Engel	Professor, University of Louvain, UCLouvain
David Enoch	Professor, Philosophy Department and Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yuval Evri	Dr., Leverhulme Early Career Fellow SPLAS, King’s College London
Richard Falk	Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University; Chair of Global Law, School of Law, Queen Mary University, London
David Feldman	Professor, Director of the Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
Yochi Fischer	Dr., Deputy Director Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Head of the Sacredness, Religion and Secularization Cluster
Ulrike Freitag	Professor Dr., History of the Middle East, Director Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Ute Frevert	Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Katharina Galor	Professor Dr., Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor, Program in Judaic Studies, Program in Urban Studies, Brown University
Chaim Gans	Professor Emeritus, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Alexandra Garbarini	Professor, Department of History and Program in Jewish Studies, Williams College
Sander Gilman	Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University
Shai Ginsburg	Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Faculty Member of the Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University
Victor Ginsburgh	Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
Carlo Ginzburg	Professor Emeritus, UCLA and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Snait Gissis	Dr., Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Glowacka Dorota	Professor, Humanities, University of King’s College, Halifax
Amos Goldberg	Professor, The Jonah M. Machover Chair in Holocaust Studies, Head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harvey Goldberg	Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sylvie-Anne Goldberg	Professor, Jewish Culture and History, Head of Jewish Studies at the Advanced School of Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
Svenja Goltermann	Professor Dr., Historisches Seminar, University of Zurich
Neve Gordon	Professor of International Law, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Emily Gottreich	Adjunct Professor, Global Studies and Department of History, UC Berkeley, Director MENA-J Program
Leonard Grob	Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Jeffrey Grossman	Associate Professor, German and Jewish Studies, Chair of the German Department, University of Virginia
Atina Grossmann	Professor of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union, New York
Wolf Gruner	Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California
François Guesnet	Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
Ruth HaCohen	Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aaron J. Hahn Tapper	Professor, Mae and Benjamin Swig Chair in Jewish Studies, University of San Francisco
Liora R. Halperin	Associate Professor of International Studies, History and Jewish Studies; Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies, University of Washington
Rachel Havrelock	Professor of English and Jewish Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Sonja Hegasy	Professor Dr., Scholar of Islamic Studies and Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Elizabeth Heineman	Professor of History and of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
Didi Herman	Professor of Law and Social Change, University of Kent
Deborah Hertz	Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, University of California, San Diego
Dagmar Herzog	Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
Susannah Heschel	Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Chair, Jewish Studies Program, Dartmouth College
Dafna Hirsch	Dr., Open University of Israel
Marianne Hirsch	William Peterfield Trent Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University
Christhard Hoffmann	Professor of Modern European History, University of Bergen
Klaus Holz	Dr. habil., General Secretary of the Protestant Academies of Germany, Berlin
Eva Illouz	Directrice d’études, EHESS Paris and Van Leer Institute, Fellow
Jill Jacobs	Rabbi, Executive Director, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, New York
Uffa Jensen	Professor Dr., Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität, Berlin
Jonathan Judaken	Professor, Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities, Rhodes College
Robin E. Judd	Associate Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University
Irene Kacandes	The Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth University
Marion Kaplan	Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University
Eli Karetny	Deputy Director Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies; Lecturer Baruch College, The City University of New York (CUNY)
Nahum Karlinsky	The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Menachem Klein	Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University
Brian Klug	Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford; Member of the Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University
Francesca Klug	Visiting Professor at LSE Human Rights and at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University
Thomas A. Kohut	Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History, Williams College
Teresa Koloma Beck	Professor of Sociology, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
Rebecca Kook	Dr., Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Claudia Koonz	Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
Hagar Kotef	Dr., Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Comparative Political Thought, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
Gudrun Kraemer	Professor Dr., Senior Professor of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Cilly Kugelman	Historian, fmr. Program Director of the Jewish Museum, Berlin
Tony Kushner	Professor, Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
Dominick LaCapra	Bowmar Professor Emeritus of History and of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Daniel Langton	Professor of Jewish History, University of Manchester
Shai Lavi	Professor, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Claire Le Foll	Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and Culture, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton; Director Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations
Nitzan Lebovic	Professor, Department of History, Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values, Lehigh University
Mark Levene	Dr., Emeritus Fellow, University of Southampton and Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations
Simon Levis Sullam	Associate Professor in Contemporary History, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, University Ca’ Foscari Venice
Lital Levy	Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Lior Libman	Assistant Professor of Israel Studies, Associate Director Center for Israel Studies, Judaic Studies Department, Binghamton University, SUNY
Caroline Light	Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Harvard University
Kerstin von Lingen	Professor for Contemporary History, Chair for Studies of Genocide, Violence and Dictatorship, Vienna University
James Loeffler	Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies, University of Virginia
Hanno Loewy	Director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems, Austria
Ian S. Lustick	Bess W. Heyman Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Sergio Luzzatto	Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History, University of Connecticut
Shaul Magid	Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Avishai Margalit	Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jessica Marglin	Associate Professor of Religion, Law and History, Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies, University of Southern California
Arturo Marzano	Associate Professor of History of the Middle East, Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa
Anat Matar	Dr., Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
Manuel Reyes Mate Rupérez	Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid
Menachem Mautner	Daniel Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Brendan McGeever	Dr., Lecturer in the Sociology of Racialization and Antisemitism, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
David Mednicoff	Chair Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Eva Menasse	Novelist, Berlin
Adam Mendelsohn	Associate Professor of History and Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town
Leslie Morris	Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts, Professor and Chair Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota
Dirk Moses	Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Samuel Moyn	Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History, Yale University
Susan Neiman	Professor Dr., Philosopher, Director of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam
Anita Norich	Professor Emeritus, English and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas	Professor of Modern European History, University of Santiago de Compostela
Esra Ozyurek	Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Ilaria Pavan	Associate Professor in Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Derek Penslar	William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University
Andrea Pető	Professor, Central European University (CEU), Vienna; CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest
Valentina Pisanty	Associate Professor, Semiotics, University of Bergamo
Renée Poznanski	Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
David Rechter	Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford
James Renton	Professor of History, Director of International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University
Shlomith Rimmon Kenan	Professor Emerita, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Member of the Israel Academy of Science
Shira Robinson	Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
Bryan K. Roby	Assistant Professor of Jewish and Middle East History, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Na’ama Rokem	Associate Professor, Director Joyce Z. And Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago
Mark Roseman	Distinguished Professor in History, Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University
Göran Rosenberg	Writer and Journalist, Sweden
Michael Rothberg	1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, UCLA
Sara Roy	Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Miri Rubin	Professor of Medieval and Modern History, Queen Mary University of London
Dirk Rupnow	Professor Dr., Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Philippe Sands	Professor of Public Understanding of Law, University College London; Barrister; Writer
Victoria Sanford	Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College Doctoral Faculty, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
Gisèle Sapiro	Professor of Sociology at EHESS and Research Director at the CNRS (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique), Paris
Peter Schäfer	Professor of Jewish Studies, Princeton University, fmr. Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Andrea Schatz	Dr., Reader in Jewish Studies, King’s College London
Jean-Philippe Schreiber	Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum	Professor Dr., Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin
Guri Schwarz	Associate Professor of Contemporary History, Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia, Università di Genova
Raz Segal	Associate Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
Joshua Shanes	Associate Professor and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies, College of Charleston
David Shulman	Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dmitry Shumsky	Professor, Israel Goldstein Chair in the History of Zionism and the New Yishuv, Director of the Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marcella Simoni	Professor of History, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Santiago Slabodsky	The Robert and Florence Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion, Hofstra University, New York
David Slucki	Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia
Tamir Sorek	Liberal Arts Professor of Middle East History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University
Levi Spectre	Dr., Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel; Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden
Michael P. Steinberg	Professor, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Music, Professor of German Studies, Brown University
Lior Sternfeld	Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University
Michael Stolleis	Professor of History of Law, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main
Mira Sucharov	Professor of Political Science and University Chair of Teaching Innovation, Carleton University Ottawa
Adam Sutcliffe	Professor of European History, King’s College London
Anya Topolski	Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Barry Trachtenberg	Associate Professor, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University
Emanuela Trevisan Semi	Senior Researcher in Modern Jewish Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Heidemarie Uhl	PhD, Historian, Senior Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Peter Ullrich	Dr. Dr., Senior Researcher, Fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin
Uğur Ümit Üngör	Professor and Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam; Senior Researcher NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
Nadia Valman	Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary, University of London
Dominique Vidal	Journalist, Historian and Essayist
Alana M. Vincent	Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination, University of Chester
Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi	Head of The Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anika Walke	Associate Professor of History, Washington University, St. Louis
Yair Wallach	Dr., Senior Lecturer in Israeli Studies School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS, University of London
Michael Walzer	Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton
Dov Waxman	Professor, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies, University of California (UCLA)
Ilana Webster-Kogen	Joe Loss Senior Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London
Bernd Weisbrod	Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Göttingen
Eric D. Weitz	Distinguished Professor of History, City College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
Michael Wildt	Professor Dr., Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin
Abraham B. Yehoshua	Novelist, Essayist and Playwright
Noam Zadoff	Assistant Professor in Israel Studies, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
Tara Zahra	Homer J. Livingston Professor of East European History; Member Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago
José A. Zamora Zaragoza	Senior Researcher, Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid
Lothar Zechlin	Professor Emeritus of Public Law, fmr. Rector Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg
Yael Zerubavel	Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and History, fmr. Founding Director Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University
Moshe Zimmermann	Professor Emeritus, The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Steven J. Zipperstein	Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
Moshe Zuckermann	Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University

(Post-launch signatories continue in the same format on the official JDA website.)