Matheus Alexandre

Matheus is currently a PhD student in Sociology at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. His research
focuses on contemporary left-wing antisemitism in Brazil, adopting a sociological approach to analyse
how images and discourses historically developed by anti-Judaism and antisemitism are being recycled
today by Brazilian left-wing actors in debates about Israel and Palestine. His work situates these
patterns within the specific social, political, and cultural context of Jewish life in Brazil — a country
with a small but diverse Jewish community relative to its overall population, which faces both overt
hostility and more subtle forms of exclusion and stereotyping.

He writes: “I strongly share the Centre’s core academic values, including its commitment to historical truth, analytical rigour, academic freedom, and collegial debate. I am particularly inspired by the Centre’s mission to challenge antisemitic thinking where it is least expected, to “hold the critique of the critique” in the spirit of Robert Fine and Hannah Arendt, and to defend a democratic intellectual culture in the face of forms of institutional antisemitism that dismiss opposition to antisemitism as outdated or reactionary.”