Combating Erasive Hate: Jewish Identity in the Face of Antisemitism

Founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, a leader, thinker, and educator, Ben M. Freeman is the author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. Educating, inspiring and empowering, his work focuses on Jewish identity and historical and contemporary Jew-hatred. A Holocaust scholar for over fifteen years, Ben came to prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis in the UK and quickly became one of his generation’s leading Jewish thinkers and voices against Jew-hate. He identified and named Erasive Jew-hate as a new subcategory of anti-jewish racism. He is a Jewish Diplomat for the World Jewish Congress, a Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy and a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. 

Sara Yacobi-Harris is a community leader, educator and multidisciplinary artist. She is the co-founder of No Silence on Race, a non-profit organization dedicated to re-imaging Jewish life in Canada for multi-ethnic Jews through community activations and content creation.  Her latest multimedia project, Periphery is an exploration of multi-racial Jewish experiences with a portrait series that ran at the JCC Prosserman in Toronto in 2021-2022, a short film that accompanies the series and digital curriculum packages for grades 8-12 and adult learning. Sara has worked at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).