This conversation with Kim-Hong Nguyen takes us through the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and connects it to other forms of “supremacism,” including white imperial feminism. Jessie Daniels interviews Dr. Nguyen, professor at University of Waterloo and author of Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss. This is the third episode of “The Trouble with White Feminism” series,.
Nguyen, Kim Hong. Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (University of Illinois Press, 2024). https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087684
Nguyen, Kim Hong. “Contemporary Fascism’s de-Judified Homo Sacer.” Cultural Politics 11, no. 3 (2015): 315-328. https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article/11/3/315/25823/Contemporary-Fascism-s-de-Judified-Homo-Sacer
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, working definition of antisemitism – https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
Kenneth Stern, one of the drafters of this definition, with regrets about it (from 2019):
“I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it.”