The Nexus Task Force

The Nexus Task Force on Issues Related to Israel & Antisemitism, made up of leading experts and scholars, analyzes issues at the intersection of antisemitism, Israel, freedom of speech, and pluralistic democracy. It has produced resources including:

• “Understanding Antisemitism at its Nexus with Israel and Zionism,” which aims to identify how antisemitism shows up today, especially in connection with debates around Israel and Zionism.
• The Nexus Document, derived from the White Paper, which was embraced as a valuable tool for raising awareness and included in the Biden administration’s U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
• The “Campus Guide to Identifying Antisemitism in a Time of Perplexity,” which aims to help members of university communities make more careful distinctions between discourse that some claim to be antisemitic, while others claim to be merely political speech.

The Nexus Task Force is affiliated with The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH). While not necessarily endorsing Nexus’ positions, BCSH welcomes the opportunity to provide an academic home for such deliberations about hate and its manifestations, and for interested Bard faculty and students to become involved with the Project’s work.