International Conference: Refiguring Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Wake of Gaza

The workshop addresses the silence of many Jewish–Christian dialogue networks in the face of Gaza’s destruction. It situates this silence within the historical formation of post-Holocaust interreligious dialogue, which has been shaped largely by the moral imperative to respond to the Shoah and Christian anti-Semitism. While this framework enabled important theological shifts, it also established a discourse centered on Euro-American concerns. The workshop examines how Christian support for Zionism has often functioned as a form of repentance for anti-Semitism. Within this dominant grammar, Israeli Jewish sovereignty is sacralized while Palestinian dispossession is marginalized, and solidarity is structured more by guilt and the affirmation of “Judeo-Christian values” than by commitments to justice. The workshop therefore asks whether Jewish–Christian dialogue must remain bound to this post-Holocaust framework or whether alternative forms are possible. It seeks to open space for decolonial, non-Zionist, and other marginalized perspectives within interreligious dialogue.

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