Academic Papers

From jstor.org

Prior to the outbreak of the corona pandemic, the Jewish world outside of Israel was
occupied with an older, more familiar disease – antisemitism, which has evidently reared
its head in recent years with new fervor. Simultaneously, Jewish communities in the
diaspora confronted efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and smear its name in the
international arena, mainly in opposition to Israel’s policies vis-à-vis the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. The struggle against antisemitism has recently commanded
increasing attention and resources, not only among Jewish communities and various
governments around the world, but also within the Israeli establishment. Nowadays,
alongside ongoing incidents of antisemitism and delegitimization of Israel, the
coronavirus crisis – which has changed the global agenda as well as that of Jewish
communities outside of Israel – has created a difficult reality with implications for these
communities that are yet to be fully understood.