Misleading Allegations and Failure to Recognize the Shifting Faces of Antisemitism: A Response to J.J. Amon
摘要
In this response to the editorial by J. J. Amon in Health and Human Rights (Amon, 2025), we reply to Dr. Amon’s claims alleging methodological problems and “politicalization” associated with our peer-reviewed work, which was published in the Journal of Religion and Health (Schwartz et al., 2025) and in the Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (Roth & Wald, 2025). Here, we offer our response, in which we provide additional details related to our informatics and statistical methodologies to refute claims raised in Amon’s editorial, that our analyses were conducted in a non-standardized manner. We also explain the distinctions between the critique of Israeli governmental policies and anti-Zionism, which is a form of antisemitism, as clearly defined by the consensus-driven International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (2016). Finally, we once again highlight the presence of the anti-Zionist form of antisemitism within medical communities and associated discourse.