Political Research Associates

Anti-Semitism Research and Agenda

2017

$75,000

For 35 years Political Research Associates (PRA) has studied organized bigotry and right-wing populist movements in order to strengthen the work of social justice leaders and defend human rights. In doing so, PRA has found that the importance of anti-Semitism in the present moment is not widely understood among the current generation of civil rights leaders. The organization seeks to change that by facilitating a community of learning and practice made up of key Jewish and non-Jewish racial justice leaders, scholars, and experts that will establish an anti-Semitism agenda for PRA and others. One outcome will be the continued publication of PRA-distributed articles like Eric K. Ward’s widely-circulated Skin In the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism. In it Ward, who is himself African American and a fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, writes, “If we acknowledge that White nationalism clearly and forcefully names Jews as non-white, and did so in the very fiber of its emergence as a post-civil rights right-wing revolutionary movement, then we are forced to recognize our own ignorance about the country we thought we lived in. It is time to have that conversation.”