Islamophobia and antisemitism — why they are a shared challenge, not a competition

Derya Iner writes for the ABC in response to a recent article by our CEO, Andre Oboler. In the original article for the ABC, Oboler argued that antisemitism statistics were being misrepresented in order to downplay the problem when compared with anti-Muslim hate and Islamophobia. In her response, Iner warns against falling into an “us versus them” mindset, and uses Kees Dorst’s technique of “problem-framing” to try to adopt a perspective from which antisemitism and Islamophobia are not viewed as competing concerns.