Yaron Gamburg: "Back to the Origins of Antisemitism: Attitudes Towards Jews and Israel in Contemporary Russia"

Sunday, March 09, 2025. In this episode, Yaron Gamburg discusses, "Back to the Origins of Antisemitism: Attitudes Towards Jews and Israel in Contemporary Russia."Yaron Gamburg is a Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies of Tel Aviv University and a PhD student at the Institute of Geopolitics at Paris 8 University. His academic research focuses on antisemitism and the discourse of the Holocaust in post-Soviet Russia. During his diplomatic service, he served at the embassies of Israel in Moscow, Paris, Washington D.C., and as Deputy Chief of Mission to the OECD, Council of Europe, and UNESCO. Born and raised in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, he immigrated to Israel in 1990. He completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Yaron has also published a piece for the ISCA Beinner Family Research Series on Antisemitism, "The Antisemitic Discourse of a 'Friend of the Jewish People': Why Putin's Russia Slides Again into the Trap of Antisemitism."Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/