Let’s stop arguing about antisemitism and focus on researching it

Per The Conversation Australia, a University of New South Wales professor argues that Australia's research on antisemitism faces a fundamental problem: there's not enough of it, and what does exist keeps getting questioned. A review of academic publications between nineteen ninety and twenty twenty-five found only one hundred seventy-three articles on antisemitism compared to three thousand six hundred forty on racism. Of those antisemitism articles, just twenty-six presented new research; thirteen more disputed whether antisemitism was even a real problem. This creates a vicious cycle—a thin evidence base gets used to argue the problem isn't serious, while efforts to strengthen that evidence get challenged over methodology or alleged political motives. Recent psychological studies have challenged common assumptions about how antisemitism works: perceived Jewish success doesn't necessarily drive prejudice, and Holocaust guilt isn't a simple predictor of modern antisemitism. The researcher says the field needs more rigorous studies, not more arguments about whether the research itself is legitimate.

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