Dr. Matthew Boxer is an assistant research professor at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University, where he taught in the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program for 10 years. His research varies widely and includes the socio-demography and social psychology of the American Jewish community, altruistic behavior, Israel/Zionism, Jewish education and antisemitism. He has been a fellow of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Antisemitism Research and serves on the national advisory board of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College. In 2023, Matt received a Distinguished Early Career Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.
The line between Zionist and non-Zionist or anti-Zionist is thinner than you might expect, as is the boundary between people willing and unwilling to say that Israel is an apartheid state.
Much of the rhetoric on the subject is evidence-free, reflecting the hopes, fears or political preferences of the speaker.
We cannot afford to dismiss thoughts that are not 100% in lockstep with our own as irrelevant, heretical or even criminal.
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