Approaches the politics of definition from an interdisciplinary perspective

Examines how and why definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia became a site of fierce political battles

Explores historical and political entanglements between the debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia

Part I Introduction.- 1. "The Pure Essence of Things"? Contingency, Controversy, and the Struggle to Define Antisemitism and Islamophobia - David Feldman and Marc Volovici.- Part II The Long View.- 2. Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions - Manuela Consonni.- 3. Attitudes to Islam and Muslims in the Christian Balkans - Frederick F. Anscombe.- 4. Moorish Blood: Islamophobia, Racism and the Struggle for the Identity of Modern Spain - Fernando Bravo López.- 5. Challenges of 'The Jewish People': Promises and Perils of Collective Identities - Cynthia M. Baker.- Part III The Short View.- 6. The Antisemitism Question and the Politics of Israel in Cold War America - Doug Rossinow. 7. The Rifle that Stands Between Us: Arab Intellectuals and the Jewish Question, 1839-2020 - Orit Bashkin.- 8. Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the "Golden Era" - G. Daniel Cohen.- Part IV The Present Day.- 9. DefiningAntisemitism: What Is the Point? - Brian Klug.- 10. 'BDS today is no different from the SA in 1933': Juridification, Securitisation and 'Antifa'-isation of the Contemporary German Discourse on Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism and the BDS Movement - Peter Ullrich.- 11. Islamophobia, Antisemitism and the Struggle for Recognition: The Politics of Definitions - Tariq Modood.- 12. Does Defining Racism Help Overcome It? - Rebecca Ruth Gould.