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Israel Breathes. World Condemns. assembles Andrew Pessin’s key writings from the past dozen years, documenting and analyzing the alarming trajectory of increasing hostility to Israel and to Jews on North American campuses over the past two decades. The two volumes thus explain how we got to the point where major campuses would openly celebrate the October 7 massacre, not to mention direct such hostility, with relative impunity, to the Jewish members in their own communities. Together they record for posterity the collective madness which was the campus in the months and two years after October 7, and in elucidating the underlying causes, begin to point the way forward.
Volume 1 focuses on the trajectory to October 7; Volume 2 focuses on the aftermath.
"How did we arrive at where we are today? How did our opponents acquire the beliefs they hold? Those are the questions those of us concerned about the alarming rise of antisemitism worldwide repeatedly ask ourselves and our friends. Andrew Pessin’s compelling essays about our recent cultural and political history give us the essential answers to those critical questions."
— Cary Nelson, author of College Zionists Confront the Abyss: The Aftermath of October 7 in Higher Education and Its Consequences for Progressive Politics
“In this collection of short pieces covering an array of topics around anti-Zionism, Pessin reveals that October 7 had an extensive background. Anti-Jewish hate was only looking for the right occasion to explode. An indispensable resource for everyone, including future historians and others looking back on our era and trying to understand how and why Jews became the prime targets for other processes of civilizational crisis and contradiction.”
— Corinne E Blackmer, author of Queering Anti-Zionism.
Andrew Pessin is a professor of philosophy and former Campus Bureau Editor of the Algemeiner. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Israel and Jewish issues, written for both academic and general audiences, as well as four novels. More information about his work is available at www.andrewpessin.com.
Introduction: Remarks at the “No Fear” Rally Against Antisemitism, Washington, DC (2021)
1. When You Realize Nearly Everyone in Your University Wants You Dead (October 22, 2023)
2. Remarks at the Rally for Israel, Providence, RI (October 24, 2023)
3. Decolonization and Murder (October 26, 2023)
4. When the Anti-Racists Are Racists (November 1, 2023)
5. Open Letter to Campus Presidents: You Can Stop This Madness Now! (November 19, 2023)
6. The Book That Saw October 7 Coming from a Mile Away: Richard Landes, Can the Whole World be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (November, 2023)
7. The One Simple Question That Determines Everything (November 20, 2023)
8. Even If (Most of) What Detractors Say About Israel Were True . . . (December 20, 2023)
9. The End of the Academy as We Knew It (April 22, 2024)
10. Response to “Connecticut College Faculty-Staff Statement of Solidarity with Student Protestors” (May 3, 2024)
11. Response to “Connecticut College Student Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” (May 9, 2024)
12. Response to Objection to Response to Connecticut College Student Solidarity Statement (May 11, 2024)
13. How Objectionable is the Connecticut College Faculty-Staff “Statement of Solidarity”? Let Me Count the Ways (May 17, 2024)
14. “One Simple Question,” Revisited (June 4, 2024)
15. Anti-Israelism and the PhD (July 29, 2024)
16. Anti-Israel Divestment Demands Demand a “Damn No!” Response (August, 2024)
17. The Impresarios of Hate: What Professors Are Teaching Your Kids About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict . . . “Education”—or Incitement? (December 5, 2024)
18. “Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism,” on Campus (December, 2024)
Conclusion: Plus Ça Change . . .
ISRAEL BREATHES. WORLD CONDEMNS. ( June 30, 2024)