Kenneth S. Stern

Bard Center for the Study of Hate

Mr. Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He is an award-winning author and attorney, and was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where he worked for 25 years. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before Congress, was an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, and served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Stockholm Forum on Combating Intolerance. Mr. Stern was also the lead drafter of the “working definition” of antisemitism and was an integral part of the defense team in the historic London Holocaust denial case of David Irving vs. Deborah Lipstadt. Mr. Stern’s op-eds and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Forward, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate.

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What Is the Relation Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism?
Shany Mor & Kenneth S. Stern
April 22, 2020